His autobiography, When I Left Home: My Story, was published in 2012. In 1999, Guy wrote the book Damn Right I've Got the Blues, with Donald Wilcock. Clapton once described him as "the best guitar player alive". His song "Stone Crazy" was ranked 78th in the Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". Guy was ranked 23rd in Rolling Stone magazine's " 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Guy has won eight Grammy Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honors. In the 1960s, Guy played with Muddy Waters as a session guitarist at Chess Records and began a musical partnership with blues harp virtuoso Junior Wells. He is an exponent of Chicago blues who has influenced generations of guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr. Even if you get in the middle of the expressway and your car quit runnin', you got blues.George " Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. Just listen to what I'm sayin': Just keep livin'. At least, you're gonna see a better time or a worser time in life. If you don't have the blues and don't know about the blues, just keep livin'. I was listening to him before I met him, so why quit listening to him when he was passed and gone?įor the younger people who don't know much about the blues, what's the case that you would make to go buy a Muddy Waters album as soon as they can? Well, coming from him, I had to listen to him. I'm fine." The next couple days, that's when I got the call from the media and asked me how did I feel - he had passed. He said, "Y'all just keep playing that em-effing blues and don't let that blues die. We rang him and he said, "Aw, man, I'm fine." He was profane, I can't say what he said. Tell me what happened, what you guys said to each other. You had a conversation with Muddy Waters about the blues when he was pretty sick, shortly before he died. Maybe some young people just coming up don't know because they don't play his records anymore, but Clapton, all of the British guys know about him. That's why The Rolling Stones called themselves The Rolling Stones. What made Muddy Waters so important to you? And we sang about the good and bad times, so you can't say it's all bad. If you listen to the lyrics of the blues, if it don't hit you, it hits someone you know. A lot of people look at blues and think it's a sad music. Is that the approach you took?Ī love letter, a text letter, whatever kind of letter you wanna call it, I hope you're right so someone can say, "Well, maybe this music isn't as bad as I thought it was." It's worth listening to. This album strikes me as a love letter to the blues. Let the young people know where it all started. I'm not telling you to play him all day, all night just play him. I tell everybody I would love to hear Muddy Waters twice a week. Now, the young people don't know nothing about it unless - I know satellite do play blues, but we need more than that. So if you never tasted it, you wouldn't love it. Music Interviews The Day Buddy Guy 'Left Home,' Bound For The Blues If they don't hear it like I did and listen to it and don't know about it - you ever been to Louisiana where they cook all this gumbo? I worry about the future of blues music whether you are black or white. Do you worry about the future of blues music? I wonder if there aren't as many young black musicians devoting themselves to the blues. King died, it was something both musicians spoke about at length, he says, and here with Greene, Guy describes the mission passed down from Muddy Waters. Today, however, Guy worries that far too few people are hearing the blues from anyone. Buddy Guy gives them credit for making the blues more mainstream while also acknowledging pioneers such as B.B. In the '60s, the blues fell out of fashion with middle-class blacks and the music found a new audience when artists like Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones started playing it. When he started, his audiences were all black - except, he tells NPR, for the occasional cop. You can hear it on Born to Play Guitar, his new album, which celebrates his six decades playing the blues.
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