My favorite guitar player, B.B. King, died Thursday. Undoubtedly – and correctly – as people write about his remarkable career, they will pay particular tribute to his 1965 Live at the Regal album, ...

When I was 14, B.B. King gave me his guitar pick. My family was skiing in Lake Tahoe; we learned about a show at the last minute and my father gamely drove over an hour-and-a-half's worth of icy roads ...