With Joe Bonamassa having gathered the cream of the scene for the B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 tribute album – and written the intro to this feature – we take an alphabetised look back at the blues legend’s classic tracks, hotel bombings, car crashes, conspiracy theories, towering infernos and more…

New tribute to their former guitarist Brian James is delivered with real passion.

Martin Barre MCNIDDER & GRACE

BY THE MID-EIGHTIES, Jimmie Vaughan had been hammering away with the Fabulous Thunderbirds for four under-the-radar albums, garnering a cult following. This, along with the fact that Robert Cray and A

WHEN PUTTING THE tracks together for B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 — my band’s two-disc, 32-track tribute to B.B. King in celebration of what would have been his 100th birthday, on September 16, 2025 —

Retracing Our Steps (2007–2014) KSCOPE