Six Silver Strings is the thirtieth studio blues album by B.B. King released in 1985. Promoted as a King's 50th album, the production is split between five David Crawford-produced tracks recorded in Miami with session musicians, and three tracks co-produced by filmmaker John Landis and his Into the Night soundtrack colleague Ira Newborn.
In a retrospective review AllMusic criticized the lackluster "pop rock" work shown in the Crawford-produced tracks, with uninspired performances from King, but praised the tunes from the Landis/Newborn session, calling "My Lucille" an "underrated signature classic." "My Lucille" was used in the film Into the Night in a scene where the lead male character walks into a bar.
Track listing "Six Silver Strings" (David Crawford, Luther Dixon) – 4:22 "Big Boss Man" (Dixon, Al Smith) – 4:48 "In the Midnight Hour" (Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett) – 3:24 "Into the Night" (Ira Newborn) – 4:12 "My Lucille" (Newborn) – 3:42 "Memory Lane" (Crawford, Dixon) – 4:35 "My Guitar Sings the Blues" (Crawford, Dixon) – 3:39 "Double Trouble" (Crawford, Dixon) – 5:14
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