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Chapter 12: The Birth and Growth of Classic Electric Blues
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Lucille is the name King gives his main guitar
(now a Gibson B.B. King signature edition, modeled
after the ES-355). The story goes that King
was playing in an Arkansas club when a fight
broke out between two men over a woman.
During the brawl a pail of kerosene that was
being used to heat the club was knocked over,
setting fire to the room. After escaping outside,
King realized that he had left his guitar inside
Burning for Lucille
and rushed back into the burning club, risking
his life to retrieve his axe. He later learned that
the name of the woman the men had been fighting
over was Lucille, and so King named his
guitar Lucille and has since named many of his
guitars in her honor. (Lucille also reminds King
to never do anything so foolish as to run into a
burning building again.)
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