B.B. King Centennial: U2’s The Edge, Joe Bonamassa and Others Pay Tribute to the Legendary Bluesman

 When B.B. King died in May 2015 at the age of 89, his Variety obituary hailed him as “the ‘King of the Blues,’ who helped define his genre’s electrified postwar sound and became the music’s best-known international ambassador.” That’s a far cry from his first appearance in these pages on June 2, 1954, a review […]