BB King

The Thrill is Gone

By: Charles Giuliano - May 15, 2015

BB King

The left hand
Fluttering like a butterfly
Picking a stinging line
That unique
Widely imitated
Vibrato
Coaxed from the
Full bodied Gibson
He called
Lucille
The original one
Rescued from a fire
Was stolen
There would be
Other Lucilles
Two wives
Fifteen children
Countless musicians
Clapton to Hendrix
Called him their father
Up from the Delta
Mississippi share cropper
Beale Street in Memphis
From there to
Stages of the world
Portly
Indeed larger than life
Cast a long shadow
Now faded to
Black and blues