“I was too young to get in. Then T-Bone Walker walked by and said, ‘Let me talk to ’em, son’”: When a 13-year-old Jimmie Vaughan was stopped from watching B.B. King play, another blues great came to his aid

BB King, Jimmie Vaughan, T-Bone Walker.

Jimmie Vaughan has looked back on the time T-Bone Walker miraculously came to his rescue when he was trying to get into his first-ever B.B King gig.

Sneaking into gigs is a rite of passage for countless aspiring musicians – but to experience an evening in the company the King, a young Vaughan needed the help of another blues legend.