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How B.B. King's Guitar "Lucille" Got Her Name

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February 29, 2024 3:00 am

How B.B. King's Guitar "Lucille" Got Her Name

Our American Stories / Lee Habeeb

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February 29, 2024 3:00 am

On this episode of Our American Stories, Neil Young has "Old Black", Willie Nelson plays "Trigger", and Elvis worked with "The Dove", but perhaps the most famous nickname for a guitar is what B.B. King named his Gibson ES-355...Lucille. Here to tell the fiery story of how she got her name is B.B. King's longtime friend, Myron Johnson, and Daniel de Vice, author of King of The Blues.

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