The B.B. King we hear today is hardly the B.B. King that made his legend, but the sound in your head when someone says "blues guitar solo" is the sound of a B.B. King solo. His sound is almost arechtypal, and photographer Patrick Ainsworth shot his show Thursday, January 16 at the Civic Theatre. Here are the highlights.

This Voodoo Music Experience was the first year since 2008 that Zack Smith was not backstage behind the Preservation Hall Stage with a makeshift photo booth and a camera or three. The end of that stage after Voodoo 2012 also meant the end of Smith’s space. One year, he had a sheet of plywood on a couple of sawhorses supporting a handful of cameras, some that shot to digital, some to film, all with different formats.