Artist	Song
The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Rock Me Baby (Live)
from Live At Monterey (2007)
Aretha Franklin	Why I Sing the Blues
from Spirit In the Dark (2008)
Santana	Everyday I Have the Blues
from Golden Legends: Santana (Live) (2005)
David Grisman & Jerry Garcia	The Thrill Is Gone
from Grateful Dawg (2001)
Ry Cooder	Never Make Your Move Too Soon
from Borderline (2008)
The Persuasions	When Love Comes to Town
from The Persuasions Sing U2 (2005)
Barbara Lynn	Sweet Sixteen
from So Good (1994)
Dr. John	There Must Be a Better World Somewhere
from Afterglow (1995)
Tony Bennett	Playin' With My Friends
from Playin' With My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2006)
Robben Ford	Help the Poor
from Talk to Your Daughter (2010)
Etta James	Sweet Little Angel
from Etta James Rocks the House (1992)
Albert King	You Upset Me, Baby
from Thursday Night In San Francisco (Live) (2009)

Comment:

If you ever questioned the larger-than-life-ness of B.B. King’s impact — not only on the blues, but also on [i]all[/i] of popular music — just check out the A-list of artists from all over the map and all over the dial who plucked some ripe morsels off B.B.’s tree. Mandolin “wonder-dawg” David Grisman and Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia pluck “The Thrill Is Gone” straight out of the Louisiana bayou, voodooing up their stripped-down acoustics with a little backwater bongo for good measure. Not that Aretha Franklin [i]ever[/i] needed any help, but in “Why I Sing the Blues,” the Queen of Soul wails and moans her [i]right[/i] to wail and moan in front of a bevy of blues-belting divas-in-waiting. And at 1967’s Monterey International Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix turned the rock world on to a King-sized serving of psychedelic blues, his fuzz-bomb guitar carving into B.B.’s “Rock Me Baby” like a two-stroke chainsaw ripping through a hornet’s nest. Jazz crooners, psych rockers, and more — from London to Los Angeles — all want a bit of the man from Itta Bena in their setlist.

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