By Chris Cillizza
"The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend," President Obama said Friday in the aftermath of the death of legendary musician B.B. King.
Obama actually joined King on stage at the White House back in February 2012 to sing a few bars of "Sweet Home Chicago". King as well as Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger and many others were at the executive mansion for a celebration of the blues, one in a series of concerts held at the White House to honor American music.
As WaPo music critic Chris Richards wrote at the time: "Previous performances in the series have saluted the music of the civil rights era, Motown and Broadway, as well as jazz, country (twice), classical and Latin music. Now, to mark Black History Month, the Obamas honored the blues, arguably the most influential of any American musical genre."
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