![]() ![]() King has used various models of Gibson guitars over the years and named them each Lucille. When he later found out that two men fighting over a woman named Lucille had knocked over a kerosene heater that had started the fire, he named the guitar Lucille, “to remind myself never to do anything that foolish.” The first “Lucille” got her name after a fire broke out at a dance in Arkansas and King ran out forgetting his guitar and then risked his life to go back and get it. His nickname, “B.B.” is short for Blues Boy, part of the name he used as a Memphis disc jockey, the Beale Street Blues Boy. King sang and played the blues on the corner of Church and Second in Indianola, and said he could earn more in one night singing on the corner than he could in one week working in the cotton field.Įnlisted in the Army during World War II but was released because he drove a tractor, an essential home front occupation. He learned basic guitar chords from his uncle, a preacher, and only performed religious music at home. Marriages: Sue Carol Hall (1958-1966, divorced), Martha Lee Denton (1942-1950, divorced)Ĭhildren: Claimed to have fathered 15 children with 15 different women King.īirth place: Mississippi Delta cotton plantation between Indianola and what is now Itta Bena, Mississippi ![]() Here’s a look at the life of blues legend B.B. ![]()
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