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FILE - This June 20, 2002 file photo shows blues legend B.B. King performing at the second anniversary celebration of B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill in New York. A guitar given to B.B. King for his 80th birthday has sold for $280,000 at an auction of items from the blues legend's estate. Julien's Auctions says King often used the black Gibson ES-345 prototype that was one of several guitars he called &quot;Lucille. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

1 of B.B. King’s ‘Lucille’ guitars sold for $280K at auction

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

McComb musician plays BB King in new miniseries

By LaKEADRA COFFEY - Associated Press

In this Friday, May 9, 2014, file photo, Grammy Museum Executive Director Bob Santelli, left, comments of The Mamas &amp; the Papas singer Cass Elliot's chair, left, on display at the Grammy Museum exhibit &quot;California Dreamin': The Sounds of Laurel Canyon, 1965 - 1977,&quot; in Los Angeles Friday, May 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) ** FILE **

Grammy Museum opens in Mississippi Delta

By Nassim Benchaabane - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2012 file photo, B.B. King performs at the 32nd annual B.B. King Homecoming in Indianola, Miss. A judge in Las Vegas is due to hear a bid by some of B.B. King’s heirs to obtain the late blues icon's medical records. A lawyer for King's estate, Brent Bryson, has called the scheduled Friday, Aug. 21, 2015, probate hearing a needless effort by disgruntled family members to raise questions about the care King received before he died May 14. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Court to hear bid by kin to obtain B.B. King medical records

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B.B. King died in hospice care at home in Las Vegas at age 89. (Associated Press)

B.B. King showed no evidence of poisoning, coroner says

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 file photo, attorney E. Brent Bryson, speaks during O.J. Simpson's trial, at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Bryson is representing the B.B. King estate in a case where some of B.B. King’s heirs are due to ask a judge in Las Vegas on Thursday, June 25, 2015, not to turn over control of the late music icon's estate to the longtime business manager he named as executor. But a lawyer for the B.B. King estate and designated executor LaVerne Toney says family members' claims that Toney isolated their father, stole from him and poisoned him before his May 14 death at age 89 have no basis in fact. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekkon, Pool)

B.B. King’s business manager is made executor of his estate

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 21, 2015 file photo, Willie King, from left, Tanya Deckard, Patty King, Karen Williams, Barbara King Winfree and Rita Washington stand outside of a funeral home after a private family viewing of blues musician B.B. King, in Las Vegas. Four of B.B. King’s daughters of are raising the possibility that a second will exists, and are again accusing the blues legend’s longtime business manager, LaVerne Toney, of stealing his wealth and endangering his health in the days before he died. Probate court documents filed Tuesday, June 9, 2015, in Las Vegas by a lawyer for King, Williams, Washington and Winfree stop short of previous allegations that Toney and the another aide poisoned B.B. King. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

4 B.B. King daughters raise possibility of ‘missing’ will

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 7, 2015, file photo, LaVerne Toney, center, arrives in Clark County Family Court in Las Vegas. Less than two weeks after blues legend B.B. King was laid to rest near his birthplace in the Mississippi Delta, a battle over his estate is moving from the headlines to the courthouse in Las Vegas. Attorneys for King’s designated executor, Toney, have filed documents in Nevada state court to fend off allegations that King family members were kept away in his dying days, that he was mistreated medically and that his money was siphoned off before he died May 14 at his Las Vegas home at age 89. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

B.B. King estate fight looms for family group, longtime aide

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

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)

Lawyer says allegations B.B. King was poisoned ‘ridiculous’

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

In this Feb. 16, 2007, file photo, B.B. King performs at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center, in Salisbury, Md. The body of blues legend B.B. King will be flown on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, to Memphis, Tennessee, the place where a young King won the nickname Beale Street Blues Boy, then will return to the Mississippi Delta where his life and career began. (Matthew S. Gunby/The Daily Times via AP)

5 B.B. King children visit body a day before public viewing

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

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)

B.B. King, ‘King of the Blues’ guitar legend, dies at age 89

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

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)

Obama on B.B. King’s death: ‘There’s going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Eric Clapton, center, performs during his &quot;70th Birthday Celebration&quot; concert at Madison Square Garden on Friday, May 1, 2015, in New York. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/Invision/AP)

Eric Clapton to B.B. King: Thanks for the ‘inspiration and encouragement’

By Maria Stainer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 22, 2012, B.B. King performs at the 32nd annual B.B. King Homecoming, a concert on the grounds of an old cotton gin where he worked as a teenager in Indianola, Miss. The Blues legend King is telling fans he’s in hospice care at home in Las Vegas. The 89-year-old musician posted thanks to fans on his official website Friday, May 1, 2015, for well-wishes and prayers. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

B.B. King’s family loses bid for control of his affairs

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 22, 2012, B.B. King performs at the 32nd annual B.B. King Homecoming, a concert on the grounds of an old cotton gin where he worked as a teenager in Indianola, Miss. The Blues legend King is telling fans he’s in hospice care at home in Las Vegas. The 89-year-old musician posted thanks to fans on his official website Friday, May 1, 2015, for well-wishes and prayers. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

B.B. King, blues legend, resting at home in Las Vegas

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This undated photo provided by Mid-South Community College in West Memphis, Ark. shows Eddie Bond at the microphone at radio station KWEM. The station, now owned by the college, that began broadcasting in West Memphis in 1947 and lasted until 1960 is being re-launched this week on the Internet. Plans are for a return to the air as an FM broadcast in August 2014. (AP Photo/Mid-South Community College)

Arkansas AM station that launched legends returns

By CHRISTINA HUYNH - Associated Press

FILE - This May 19, 2013 file photo shows Christina Aguilera performing at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. Aguilera is planning to have an entire brass horn section to back her up, and a special set list for Friday night’s show during Jazz Fest, including “Lady Marmalade,” the Patti LaBelle song she helped remake into a hit years ago. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Aguilera makes Jazz Fest debut

By CHEVEL JOHNSON - Associated Press

Bluesman apologizes for St. Louis concert gone bad

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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

Erratic B.B. King performance makes fans blue

By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER - Associated Press