Southtown Star - Chicago, IL, USA - B.B. King, the "King of the Blues," will perform at the Center for Performing Arts in University Park for the first time on Friday.

King's show will feature signature classics including "Payin' the Cost To Be the Boss," "The Thrill Is Gone," "How Blue Can You Get," "Everyday I Have the Blues" and "Why I Sing the Blues."

As seen on NBC's runaway summer hit show "America's Got Talent," 14-year-old blues harmonic whiz LD Miller and his brother, Cole, will open the show.

For more than a half century, Riley B. King, better known as B.B. King, has defined the blues for a