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

Has B.B. King ever not looked like this?

Friday, it turns out, is a pretty solid day for musician-owned (or at least branded) bar openings. Scott Ian and Jerry Cantrell’s Dead Man’s Hand gets going at The Playground, and B.B. King’s Blues Club opens at The Mirage.

The blues joint will feature soul food under the direction of Executive Chef Oscar Pena, who has worked at the Luxor, The Venetian, New York-New York and Monte Carlo, plus was a person chef to Don King and Mike Tyson. So he’s heard “Do you have any good recipes for ear?” roughly 28,000 time over the last 12 years.

By Jason Scavone

The great thing about B.B. King is he looks exactly like a bluesman should.

B.B. King’s Blues Club, opening in winter at The Mirage across from Revolution Lounge and next to Samba, is holding a job fair Sept. 9 and 10 at Mirage’s St. Croix A and B Ballrooms. To increase your chances of being hired at a blues club, we suggest you make a deal with Satan at the crossroads. It’s more or less the only key to blues-based success.

The food-and-music joint is hiring for all bar, food service and management positions, including kitchen, bar and operations manager, servers, hosts, cashiers, bussers, bar backs, lounge servers, greeters, cooks, prep cooks and kitchen assistants. Bring a resume and be prepared for on-site interviews. Interviews will be in the form of playing a 12-bar blues shuffle with a glass slide. Keep it simple, something in a George Thorogood. You don’t want to look like you’re trying too hard.

The casting call starts 7 a.m. to noon Sept. 9 and resumes from 1 to 6 p.m. On Sept. 10 it’s 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and again from 3 to 8 p.m.

The restaurant will specialize in Creole fused with soul food and music seven nights a week in a 558-seat venue with four bars. Sure. But will the house band sing about cracking women with a brick?

By Jason Scavone