WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says there’s “going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight.” The president issued a statement Friday mourning the death of blues legend B.B. King. He says, “The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend.” Obama says King rose from a sharecropper’s son to […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) – B.B. King, whose scorching guitar licks and heartfelt vocals made him the idol of generations of musicians and fans while earning him the nickname King of the Blues, died late Thursday at home in Las Vegas. He was 89. His attorney, Brent Bryson, told The Associated Press that King died peacefully in his […]
