Revisit that time Obama dueted with B.B. King at the White House
On Friday, President Obama mourned the death of B.B. King, and recalled an event at the White House in 2012 in which he had a chance to sing "Sweet Home Chicago" with the blues legend.
"Three years ago, Michelle and I hosted a blues concert at the White House. I hadn't expected that I'd be talked into singing a few lines of 'Sweet Home Chicago' with B.B. by the end of the night, but that was the kind of effect his music had, and still does," Obama said in a statement. "The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend."
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