Hear "Cognac," Buddy Guy's New Song with Jeff Beck and Keith Richards
For the latest single from his new album, The Blues is Alive and Well, Buddy Guy has enlisted two fellow blues guitar icons: Jeff Beck and Keith Richards. You can hear the trio's wonderful concoction, "Cognac," above.
"Cognac" is the third single Guy has released from The Blues is Alive and Well, following "Blue No More"—a tender duet with English singer/songwriter James Bay—and "Nine Below Zero," a ferocious Sonny Boy Williamson cover.
Set for a June 15 release via Silvertone/RCA Records, The Blues is Alive and Well is the follow-up to 2015's Grammy-winning Born To Play Guitar. It was produced by longtime collaborator Tom Hambridge. You can check out its tracklist below.
You can preorder The Blues is Alive and Well right here.
Buddy Guy—The Blues is Alive and Well tracklist:
01 A Few Good Years
02 Guilty As Charged
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03 Cognac (featuring Jeff Beck & Keith Richards)
04 The Blues Is Alive And Well
05 Bad Day
06 Blue No More (featuring James Bay)
07 Whiskey For Sale
08 You Did The Crime (featuring Mick Jagger)
09 Old Fashioned
10 When My Day Comes
11 Nine Below Zero
12 Ooh Daddy
13 Somebody Up There
14 End Of The Line
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Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.
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