For Buddy Guy — a stalwart and staunch defender of the blues — there’s nothing more important than keeping his chosen genre at the forefront of conversation. It comes naturally: Guy is one of ...

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It was just two years ago that Buddy Guy announced a Damn Right Farewell Tour and talked about winding down his touring career. But you might have noticed that, at 89, the dude is still on the road.

If you happened to be at the corner of Wabash and Balbo at 11 p.m. in early February, you would have seen a small crowd gathered around an 87-year-old man with a beaming smile. Nattily attired in a ...

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The blues has always been a genre whose younger musicians respect its roots, culture and elder statesmen. Many of those elders — say, Muddy Waters and B.B. King — are gone now. Another, though, is ...

Next month, blues legend Buddy Guy will release his 34th studio album, The Blues Don't Lie. It's a guest-heavy affair with appearances from the likes of Mavis Staples, Elvis Costello, and James Taylor ...

Blues legend Buddy Guy, left, Quinn Sullivan, center, a young blues artist who he mentored, and Jimmie Vaughan pose for a picture during the unveiling of a roadside marker paying tribute to Guy on ...

Two years ago, renowned blues guitarist Buddy Guy began his farewell tour, and though he just turned 89, he hasn’t stopped yet. Guy is on a mission to exalt the blues — this deeply American music — ...

This much about Buddy Guy is well known: at 84, he’s the last living member of the blues’ Greatest Generation of electric guitarists (the group that includes Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Albert King, John ...

Chicago blues great Buddy Guy never was the same after he heard John Lee Hooker’s seminal “Boogie Chillun’” while growing up in his rural stomping grounds of Lettswork, Louisiana. In 1957 he set out ...