At the Hitmakers brunch, Guy received the Living Legend/Iconic Collaboration in Film award for his work on Sinners, which ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Buddy Guy may be a son of the south, but he's a man of Chicago blues. He makes that music his own at his South Loop Legends Club, and it echoes around the world. Guy is hard to miss; ...

For Buddy Guy, a guitar and a microphone are like a time machine. The legendary blues guitarist took the stage at Toyota Music Factory on May 6, billed as a “very special guest” opening the show for ...

Guy was one of the first guitarists to use electronic feedback and distortion. Now, at age 88, he has a cameo in Ryan Coogler's supernatural horror film Sinners. Originally broadcast in 1993. This is ...

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 ...

At his regular spot — the stool with “BG” on the back, way at one end of the bar — the owner of Buddy Guy’s Legends scans the hundreds of people packing his club. Tugging off the pandemic-era mask he ...

Buddy Guy, who just turned 88, will be officially retired from the road by early fall. Only, before that happens, before the Chicago legend slows, a few facts demand context. For one, retirement doesn ...

The guitarist and singer, who turns 89 in July, discusses his role in Ryan Coogler’s musical horror drama and his promise to Muddy Waters and B.B. King. By Mesfin Fekadu Buddy Guy would do just about ...

Since 1989, few winter nights in Chicago have been hotter than the Thursday through Sunday evenings in January and early February which make up Buddy Guy’s annual live performance residency, an ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about Buddy Guy that hits you right in the gut—the way he bends a string, the way his voice trembles with heartbreak, the way he pours a lifetime of joy and sorrow ...

In 1957, at the age of just 21, Buddy Guy left Louisiana for Chicago in search of the blues. Born to sharecroppers in Lettsworth, Louisiana, not far from the Mississippi border, Guy worked on the farm ...

Discover the latest vinyl reissues from Craft Recordings and Bluesville, featuring Buddy Guy’s This Is Buddy Guy! and Scrapper Blackwell’s Mr. Scrapper’s Blues. Craft Recordings and Bluesville Records ...