The man is 84 years old and still opening restaurants. When we’re 84 the only thing we’ll open is cans of soup.

Lucille is going to have company tomorrow night.

B.B. King’s Blues Club at The Mirage marks its grand opening tomorrow night with a straight-up blues explosion (bluesplosion?) that includes not only two towering figures of the genre, but an actual Blues Brother, too. What? No, of course it isn’t Zombie John Belushi. Everyone knows he only comes to haunt Aykroyd on Christmas Eve.

King himself will be joined by Buddy Guy and Willie Nelson, plus Robert Cray, Steve Cropper (not only a Brother, but also from Booker T. & The M.G.’s), Lee Roy Parnell, Lee Ritenour, Matt Goss and Robin Antin, Taylor Barton, the cast of Pawn Stars and the Thunder from Down Under dudes. You can RSVP to get in with SpyOn.

We heard opera singer Andrea Bocelli, who has a show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday, is a possibility. Nelson is a definite to get on stage, and there’s always the chance King and Guy could do songs too. Which is awesome, not only because those guys are all legends, but because it could be a chance to break out the Buddy Guy Really Long Uncomfortable Stare. Try watching Shine a Light on IMAX, where it seems like he’s staring at you so long you want to go make him a sandwich or something.

By Jason Scavone

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