B.B. King and Buddy Guy

For more than half a century, B.B. King has defined the blues for a worldwide audience. Over the years, he has developed one of the world's most identifiable guitar styles, borrowed from Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker and others. In the mid-1950s, while B.B. was performing, two men got into a fight over a woman named Lucille and ended up setting the hall he was playing at on fire. Ever since, each one of B.B.'s trademark Gibson guitars has been called Lucille, to remind him never to fight over a woman.
At age 83, B.B. King is still light on his feet, singing and playing the blues with relentless passion. The Grammy Award-winner, Rock and Hall of Famer and Blues Foundation Hall of Fame inductee, continues to tour extensively, averaging over 250 concerts per year around the world. Classics such as "Payin' The Cost To Be The Boss," "The Thrill Is Gone," "How Blue Can You Get," "Everyday I Have The Blues," and "Why I Sing The Blues" are concert staples.
Any discussion of Buddy Guy invariably involves a recitation of his colossal musical resume and hard-earned accolades. He's a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a chief guitar influence to rock titans like Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, and Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago's fabled West Side sound, and a living link to that city's halcyon days of electric blues. Just this year, Buddy appeared on the big screen nationwide with a show-stopping performance in Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones concert film, Shine A Light. And now, the release of Skin Deep, an album of all original material, with guest appearances from fellow guitar wizards Eric Clapton, Robert Randolph, Susan Tedeschi, and Derek Trucks adds yet another dimension to this master's legendary career.