President Obama sings ‘Sweet Home Chicago’ with B.B. King at White House event (Video)

We already know the President can sing Al Green, but President Obama decided to show off his singing talent again at a White House event with blues legend B.B. King, Mick Jagger and others.

During the concert, guitarist Buddy Guy was egging Obama on to sing again after hearing his performance of Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” at the Apollo Theater last month. The Associated Press reports that Guy told Obama, “You gotta keep it up.”

Then Rolling Stones front man Jagger handed the microphone to Obama, who just could not resist to sing a few lines from the blues classic, “Sweet Home Chicago.” The President sang, “Come on, baby don’t you want to go,” handed the mic to King and took it back to sing a few more lines.

Prior to the concert, Obama spoke about the universality of blues, telling the audience that gathered in the East Room that, “No one goes through life without both joy and pain, triumph and sorrow. The blues gets all of that, sometimes with just one lyric or one note.” The show started with King performing “Let The Good Times Roll” and “The Thrill is Gone.” Jagger performed “I Can’t Turn You Loose” and was joined by Jeff Beck for “Commit A Crime.”

When it came time to wrap up the show, Obama introduced “Sweet Home Chicago,” saying that for “Michelle and me...there’s no blues like the song our artists have chosen to close with — the blues from our hometown.”

According to MSNBC, the concert, called Red, White and Blues, celebrated Black History Month. It was part of PBS’ In Performance At The White House series and will air on local PBS stations Monday at 9 p.m. The other performers included Keb Mo, Booker T. Jones, Derek Trucks, Gary Clark Jr., Sehemekia Copeland, Susan Tedeschi, Troy “Tombone Shorty” Andrews and Warrne Haynes.

You can watch President Obama’s performance in the video below: