Yet another good quality The Thrill Is Gone backing track. Even though the song was a Hawkins song originally, this will forever be B.B. Kings's signature song. B.B. didn't have much success on the charts with first recording, but later became a blues legend who influenced a generation of musicians.
More backing tracks in style of B.B. King
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Artist info
Undisputed king of the blues influenced many later electric blues guitarists and is ranked No. 6 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Probably the gratest blues song he performed ever was "The Thrill Is Gone", written by Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951. B.B. was best known for playing variants of the Gibson ES-355. In 1980, Gibson Guitar Corporation launched the B.B. King Lucille model.