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May 15, 2015 · Lucille’s beginnings date to 1949, when King, then in his early 20s, was performing at a nightclub in Twist, Arkansas, in the dead of winter.
- King Ran Into A Deadly Fire to Save His Guitar
- After The Fire, King Named All His Guitars 'Lucille'
- He Wrote A 10-Minute Song About His Love For Lucille
Born September 16, 1925, as Riley B. King, he earned his famous moniker in his early days, working as a disc jockey in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was called the “Beale Street Blues Boy”— eventually shortened to B.B. The year that he made his first record was the same year he named Lucille at a Twist nightclub. “When we didn't have any other place ...
King didn’t just call that first guitar Lucille, he continued to call all of his guitars by the name of the woman he never met throughout his illustrious career. The “ES” in his choice model of Gibson guitar stands for “Electric Spanish.” He started with the ES-335 and worked his way up to the ES-355 until he collaborated directly with Gibson on a ...
King reinforced the importance of the Lucille name to him in another way too — by naming his 1968 nine-song 15th album simply Lucille, along with a 10-minute-and-16-second title track by the name. The lyrics recount the story of how he “met” Lucille — in essence also capturing his life story — starting with the words, “The sound that you’re listeni...
Lucille is the name American blues musician B.B. King (1925–2015) gave to his guitars. They were usually black Gibson guitars similar to the ES-330 or ES-355 , and Gibson introduced a B.B. King custom model in 1980, based upon the latter.
- Semi-hollow
- 24 3/4"/1 11/16"
- 1980–2015
May 15, 2015 · B.B. King, who died Thursday at age 89, named his guitar Lucille because of a woman he never met. In fact, there have been many Lucilles, most famously a series of custom-designed Gibsons but...
May 15, 2015 · B.B. KING: The sound that you're listening to is from my guitar that's named Lucille. CORNISH: Lucille was born out a near-death experience in the winter of 1949. Here's B.B. King telling that...
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May 15, 2015 · The blues legend, who died on Thursday night in Las Vegas, where he had been in hospice care, was forever linked to his beloved guitars.
