With a little help from Bonamassa and Josh Smith, Eric Gales put together one of the great 21st-century blues albums to honor ...

Credit: NPR Music Buddy Guy has become the latest guitar legend to perform on the internet's favorite music stage, the NPR ...

The legendary guitarist's story reveals the supportive brotherhood hidden beneath Chicago's cutthroat blues scene ...

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 — ...

The blues is alive and well” as Buddy Guy shares the stage with Gary Clark Jr. in what felt like a proverbial passing of the ...

Guy, now 86 years old, is one of the best guitar players of all time and the artist is still going strong with a new album, The Blues Don’t Lie, on the way. Following the announcement of the upcoming ...

His longevity is one of the reasons Ryan Coogler wanted the elder statesman of the blues to be in his movie, and he ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University. Buddy Guy was one of the first blues guitarists to use electronic feedback and distortion, and his ...

When you're Buddy Guy, a pioneer of Chicago blues who influenced everyone from Jimmy Pageto Stevie Ray Vaughan to Jimi Hendrix, you can do whatever you want—even pausing mid-solo to have a drink. When ...

Buddy Guy was one of the first blues guitarists to use electronic feedback and distortion, and his technique is legendary. In 1986, Eric Clapton called him the greatest guitarist of all time.

Buddy Guy plays the older version of blues musician Sammie Moore. Guy was born in rural Louisiana in 1936, the son of sharecroppers. He set out for Chicago as a young man and quickly became a central ...