Latest about Buddy Guy
10 pro guitarists who broke strings onstage – and how they recovered
The rock royals, pop icons and blues heroes who kept their cool in the heat of battle and styled it out even after going a string down...
Why Buddy Guy loves polka dots
The blues icon tells the poignant tale behind the pattern that appears on his signature gear – and how his love of the Stratocaster inspired Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck to pick up the Fender classic themselves
Learn the Chicago blues shuffle style
Kirk Fletcher gives you a lesson in the blues guitar style pioneered by the great Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and Magic Sam
Kenny Wayne Shepherd recruits Buddy Guy and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram for inaugural Backroads Blues Festival tour
The six-date event, which takes places this August, has been envisaged as an annual show, and aims to revive the "traditional touring blues festival" format
Buddy Guy’s role as a blues mentor and standard-bearer highlighted in new trailer for The Torch documentary
The guitar icon’s dedication to raising the next generation of blues talent is at the heart of a new documentary, which opens in theaters next month
Roger Daltrey says Jimi Hendrix “stole Pete Townshend’s stage act completely”
The claim, which was made in good humor, was followed by the observation that Buddy Guy was the true originator of guitar-playing stagecraft
Fender Custom Shop builds Jason Momoa a replica of Buddy Guy’s “holy grail” Strat – with Buddy Guy’s blessing
Vincent Van Trigt’s meticulously assembled Stratocaster aims to emulate the feel and tone of Guy's own guitar, as if it had been played in blues bars since the 1950s
Buddy Guy: “When you pick up a guitar, you have something of your own even if you don’t realize it”
With a new documentary about the great Buddy Guy soon to air on PBS, we spoke to the world’s greatest living bluesman about a life bending those strings and chasing people’s blues away
