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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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Buddy Guy poses for a portrait at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago on Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y ...

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; ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Buddy Guy wraps up his annual residency shows at his Legends club in the South Loop this weekend. Audiences still have time to see one of the greatest blues artists of all time. The ...

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 ...

Two summers ago, Buddy Guy announced his Damn Right Farewell Tour, intending to bring an end to more than 60 years as a fixture on the road. The guitar-playing blues legend has not gone away, however, ...

It is hard to believe it, but back in the ‘60s the Fender Stratocaster was not considered a great blues guitar. Then along came Buddy Guy, switching his Guild semihollows for a solidbody that could be ...

Best of 2024: As cross-cultural high points go in post-war austerity Britain, the American Folk Blues Festival tours that started in 1962 took some beating. Seemingly out of nowhere, iconic blues ...

Buddy Guy, the legendary Chicago blues guitarist and showman known for his riveting, virtuoso playing and fervent vocals, is a five-time Grammy Award-winner who was inducted into the Rock and Roll ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...