How old is buddy guy

Geronimo, leader of the Apache, photographed in Well, you know, I was here in the Sixties, with Dr. The peaceful marches, we needed that. Some people took advantage of that. When Columbus discovered America, he had to kill a lot of Indians. His statue should have been put up somewhere, because he fought till the end. So I remember all that. How do you judge our current moment? Do you see things getting better? We should have seen the light at the end of the tunnel.

But a lot of things go on. Until something like this exploded and the whole world saw this — that might help us achieve more than we have. Thanks, Buddy. Do you play guitar at home? I learn how to play by listening. I listen to other stuff. I got the music television on TV and I can go back and get some of the old guys. I was watching John Lee Hooker yesterday. I go back and get a lot of those older guys from when I was 16, 17 years old and I picked up ideas from those guys.

Is there anything else you want to tell your fans? Thank God a few of us are still alive to talk about it, and hopefully we can get it over pretty soon so we can get back to normal. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone. Log In. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. You are no longer onsite at your organization. In , Guy reunited with Junior Wells on the stage of his Legends club; it would prove to be one of Wells ' last live performances, and the show was released in , several months after Wells ' passing, on the album Last Time Around: Live at Legends.

While most of Guy 's work in the late '90s and into the new millennium was the sort of storming Chicago blues that was the basis of his reputation, he also demonstrated he was capable of exploring other avenues, channeling the hypnotic Deep Southern blues of Junior Kimbrough on 's Sweet Tea and covering a set of traditional blues classics on acoustic guitar for 's Blues Singer. In , Guy won the W.

Handy Award from the American Blues Foundation for the 23rd time, more than any other artist, while he took home his sixth Grammy Award in for the album Living Proof. King presenting him with his award, and in he performed a special concert at the White House, where he persuaded President Barack Obama to join him at the vocal mike for a few choruses of "Sweet Home Chicago. Two years later, Guy returned with Born to Play Guitar , another album recorded with producer Tom Hambridge , who has helmed the guitarist's albums since 's Skin Deep.

AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. I wish I could answer that. The lyrics tell you about something you did good or something you did bad. We always sang about everyday life. Muddy Waters had helped them bring their instruments upstairs to do an audition.

I had never seen white men with hair that long and high-heeled boots. I wanted to curse. How did you end up hooking up with the Yardbirds in England? Apparently those shows were pretty influential to future stars there. First of all, I was booked to go to England. Jimmy Page. Keith [Richards]. Then they got famous and came to the U. Eric Clapton once told me that I was playing in the key of B-flat and threw the guitar in the air and caught it still playing B-flat as it was coming down.

I guess I was just at the right place at the right time. Leon Bridges craved reinvention. Let me explain this: I got a son. He was in the house with me.

Every time they would put my record on, he would snatch it off. When he turned 21, he went to a club and they were playing my record and he started crying.