Not many players earn the title ‘king of the blues’, but then not many players have been as influential as the great Albert King. One of the leading players of his generation alongside fellow blues ...

There’s an old, old blues couplet — I first heard Big Bill Broonzy sing it but it certainly goes further back than even his recollection did, probably to some recently emancipated tenant farmer in the ...

Harrell is stopping in Reading in between a Blues Cruise and a European tour, and Castiglia is also touring in support of his ...

Joe Bonamassa plays Albert King's 1971 custom-built "Lucy" Flying V-style guitar made by Dan Erlewine. After the 1960s blues boom, the genre began to lose traction as rock, metal, punk, rap and ...

RACINE — He was known by the stage name Albert King as well as “King of the Blues Guitar.” He was born in 1923 in Mississippi and started off life as a farm laborer, but his heart was in the blues and ...

In Session Album, which reached #1 on the blues chart, has been digitally remastered for this reissue. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Albert King never got the mass recognition he deserved. He always seemed to ...