B.B. King became a man at age 9 when his mother died, the Rev. Herron Wilson said at the funeral for the blues legend on Saturday. The words that King’s mother said to him on her deathbed – to ...

The body of blues legend B.B. King will return next week to the Mississippi Delta where his life and career began. In Memphis, Tennessee - where King won the nickname Beale Street Blues Boy - a ...

B.B. King’s funeral draws hundreds in Mississippi Carver Randle, a longtime friend and attorney addresses mourners during the funeral service for blues legend B.B. King at Bell Grove M.B. Church ...

INDIANOLA – B.B. King's early life personified the blues: ... More than 200 people who couldn't get into the sanctuary watched a live broadcast of the funeral in the church's fellowship hall, ...

The Mississippi Delta region said goodbye to native son and blues icon B.B. King on Saturday at his funeral in Indianola, Miss. Mississippi congressman Bennie Thompson read a letter from President ...

Amid rain, about 500 people filled the sanctuary of Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church, a red brick structure that sits in a field off of B.B. King Road in Indianola.

The legendary blues guitarist and singer B.B. King died on May 14, 2015, at the age of 89. See footage of King’s funeral procession, from Memphis, Tennessee, to his final resting place in ...

On May 29, a public viewing will take place at the B.B. King Museum in Indianola from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. On May 30, funeral services will take place at the Bell Grove M.B. Church in Indianola from ...

Blues king B.B. King’s funeral will be held on May 23 in Las Vegas, his youngest daughter, Claudette King, announced on her Facebook page Saturday. “Hello all. Thank you everyone for your well ...

B.B. King became a man at age 9 when his mother died, the Rev. Herron Wilson said at the funeral for the blues legend on Saturday.