Good friends of American Blues Scene Buddy Guy’s Blues and Music News has posted this interactive B.B. King timeline.
“This morning, I come to you all with a heavy heart.,” Buddy Guy wrote on Facebook. “BB King was the greatest guy I ever met. The tone he got out of that guitar, the way he shook his left wrist, the way he squeezed the strings… man, he came out with that and it was all new to the whole guitar playin’ world. He could play so smooth, he didn’t have to put on a show. The way BB did it is the way we all do it now. He was my best friend and father to us all.
I’ll miss you, B. I love you and I promise I will keep these damn Blues alive. Rest well.”