B.B. King had been quite successful on the R&B charts since 1951, but this was only his second Top 40 pop record. He came out of Indianola, Miss. to play the juke joint circuit throughout the Mississippi Delta. One night at a club in Twist, Arkansas the place caught fire, caused by two men fighting over a woman named Lucille. B.B. ran back into the burning building to rescue his guitar, which he named after the woman as a reminder to never endanger himself that way again.
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