# How Blue Can You Get? guitar solo > The guitar solo on How Blue Can You Get? by B.B. King (1965) starts at about 0:12. From the album Live at the Regal. Played on a Gibson ES-355 (Lucille). Canonical URL: B.B. King, 1965, from *Live at the Regal*. Solo by *B.B. King*. The call-and-response between King's guitar and the audience builds to one of the most famous payoffs in live blues, with the guitar lines setting up every punch. How Blue Can You Get? by B.B. King is #4 in our ranking of the best B.B. King guitar solos. The solo is played by B.B. King and the song was released in 1965. ## In our lists - [The Best B.B. King Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/b-b-king-guitar-solos/) — #4 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1965](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1965/) — #16 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on How Blue Can You Get? B.B. King played the solo on B.B. King's How Blue Can You Get? (1965). ### What guitar was used on the How Blue Can You Get? solo? A gibson es-355 (lucille), according to widely reported accounts. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)