WDIA’s Beale Street Blues Boy, born in 1925 on a cotton plantation in Mississippi,  is accompanying Gabriel’s horn with his Delta blues guitar, Lucille, and velvety voice and staccato-picking style.

Riley B. King, who shortened his name to B.B. King, as in Beale Blues, died Thursday night in Las Vegas. He was 89.

B.B. brought blues into the mainstream with such classics as “My Lucille,” a tribute to his Gibson ES-355 guitar, “Sweet Little Angel” and “Rock Me Baby.”

Later, he had hits with Eric Clapton and U2.

To read the CNN article on the king of the blues, click on

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/15/entertainment/bb-king-dead/index.html