Lucille was B.B. King's girlfriend who lived in Parkin, Arkansas — and the woman for whom the most famous guitar in blues history was named. The story goes that B.B. nearly died in a juke-joint fire in Twist, Arkansas, when he ran back into the burning building to save his guitar. Two men had started the fire fighting over a woman named Lucille.
B.B. named every guitar he ever played "Lucille" after that night — a reminder to never do something that stupid again. Her connection to the Delta world Jim lived in is part of the fabric of the region's larger-than-life storytelling tradition.