Georgia Entertainment Scene
Musicians react to death of B.B. King on Twitter
B.B. King in 2013. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)
Shortly after the death of blues legend B.B. King was confirmed in the wee hours (East Coast time) Friday, musicians took to Twitter to share their condolences.
King last performed in Atlanta in August 2012 at Chastain Park Amphitheatre with the Tedeschi Trucks Band.
Read his full obit here and see a gallery of B.B. King through the years here.
Here is what some had to say about his passing.
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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.
