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Rita Washington, facing camera, daughter of B.B. King, embraces people waiting in line during a public viewing of the blues legend Friday, May 22, 2015, in Las Vegas. A pu(AP Photo/John Locher)
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Then 86-year-old B.B. King thrills a crowd of several hundred people at the annual B.B. King Homecoming, a free concert on the grounds of an old cotton gin where he worked as a teenager many years ago, in Indianola, Miss., in this Aug. 22, 2012, file photo. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2007 file photo, B.B. King performs at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center, in Salisbury, Md. King died Thursday, May 14, 2015, peacefully in his sleep at his Las Vegas home at age 89, his lawyer said. (Matthew S. Gunby/The Daily Times via AP) NO SALES
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In this June 26, 2010, file photo, B.B. King performs during the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago. King died Thursday, May 14, 2015, peacefully in his sleep at his Las Vegas home at age 89, his lawyer said. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
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FILE - In this June 26, 2010 file photo, B.B. King performs during the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago. King died Thursday, May 14, 2015, peacefully in his sleep at his Las Vegas home at age 89, his lawyer said. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
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In this April 4, 2014 photo, B.B King performs at the Peabody Opera House on April 4, 2014 in St. Louis, Mo. Some St. Louis music fans are singing the blues after an erratic weekend performance by 88-year-old guitar legend B.B. King led to a stream of early departures and audience catcalls. Concert-goers say King’s rambling Friday night set at the Peabody Opera House included only a handful of complete songs amid musical snippets, long-winded soliloquies and a 15-minute sing-along of “You Are My Sunshine.” (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sarah Conard) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT
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In this April 4, 2014 photo, B.B King performs at the Peabody Opera House on April 4, 2014 in St. Louis, Mo. Some St. Louis music fans are singing the blues after an erratic weekend performance by 88-year-old guitar legend B.B. King led to a stream of early departures and audience catcalls. Concert-goers say King’s rambling Friday night set at the Peabody Opera House included only a handful of complete songs amid musical snippets, long-winded soliloquies and a 15-minute sing-along of “You Are My Sunshine.” (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sarah Conard) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT
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In this April 4, 2014 photo, B.B King performs at the Peabody Opera House on April 4, 2014 in St. Louis, Mo. Some St. Louis music fans are singing the blues after an erratic weekend performance by 88-year-old guitar legend B.B. King led to a stream of early departures and audience catcalls. Concert-goers say King’s rambling Friday night set at the Peabody Opera House included only a handful of complete songs amid musical snippets, long-winded soliloquies and a 15-minute sing-along of “You Are My Sunshine.” (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sarah Conard) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT
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Posters of James Brown and B.B. King hang above the bar on the main level of the redesigned historic Howard Theatre which is set to reopen with a ribbon cutting Monday and an opening night gala on Thursday, Washington, D.C., Thursday, April 5, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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From left, B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Warren Haynes were among those who performed Tuesday at the White House. President Obama got a few blues notes in as well. (Associated Press)
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B.B. King (left), Buddy Guy (center) and Warren Haynes perform in recognition of Black History Month on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009 file photo, James Moody arrives at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Jazz saxophonist James Moody, who recorded more than 50 solo albums as well as songs with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Lionel Hampton and B.B. King, has died. He was 85. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
