The Best Rock Guitarists Who Ever Lived

B.B. King

B.B. King is the definition of a genius success story. Born on a cotton plantation, his family made very little money in sharecropping. King showed an early interest in music and bought his first guitar at the age of 12 for $15. Years later, he was touring the country extensively, playing on a multitude of radio shows, and still playing juke joint and church gigs like how he started. King innovated the world of blues guitar both tonally and technically.

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