# The Best B.B. King Guitar Solos

> The 16 best B.B. King guitar solos, ranked. #1 is The Thrill Is Gone (1969), then Every Day I Have the Blues and Sweet Little Angel.

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B.B. King turned single-note blues lead into a vocal art form, using a wide shimmering finger vibrato and carefully rationed notes that made every phrase sound like a reply to his own singing. Generations of rock and blues players, from Clapton to Gilmour, built their lead vocabulary on his bends and his idea that silence is part of the solo.

Informed by: [Wikipedia - B.B. King discography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King_discography), [Wikipedia - Live at the Regal (B.B. King album)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_the_Regal_(B.B._King_album))

1. [The Thrill Is Gone](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-the-thrill-is-gone/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1969
2. [Every Day I Have the Blues](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-every-day-i-have-the-blues/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1965
3. [Sweet Little Angel](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-sweet-little-angel/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1965
4. [How Blue Can You Get?](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-how-blue-can-you-get/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1965
5. [Sweet Sixteen](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-sweet-sixteen/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1971
6. [Three O'Clock Blues](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-three-o-clock-blues/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1951
7. [Rock Me Baby](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-rock-me-baby/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1964
8. [Paying the Cost to Be the Boss](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-paying-the-cost-to-be-the-boss/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1968
9. [Lucille](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-lucille/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1968
10. [Why I Sing the Blues](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-why-i-sing-the-blues/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1969
11. [Worry, Worry](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-worry-worry/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1971
12. [When Love Comes to Town](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-when-love-comes-to-town/) — U2 · solo by B.B. King · 1988
13. [Riding with the King](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-and-eric-clapton-riding-with-the-king/) — B.B. King & Eric Clapton · solo by B.B. King and Eric Clapton · 2000
14. [Hummingbird](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-hummingbird/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1970
15. [Chains and Things](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-chains-and-things/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1970
16. [You Upset Me Baby](https://greatestsolos.com/song/b-b-king-you-upset-me-baby/) — B.B. King · solo by B.B. King · 1954

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