The blues will be celebrated in a big way this summer if the 2025 Chicago Blues Festival lineup announced Wednesday morning by the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, is any ...

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President Barack Obama was unexpectedly drawn into singing a few lines of "Sweet Home Chicago" with B.B. King when he performed at a White House blues concert three years ago.

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Daniel de Visé began contemplating a biography of B.B. King — one of the most iconic figures in American music — he was shocked at what he discovered.