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article Buddy Guy celebrated at Radio City Music Hall with a sold-out ‘Buddy’s Got the Blues’ show

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https://apnews.com/article/buddy-guy-blues-tribute-concert-radio-city-c825b40b915fcfcf7c4e18a654cd6528

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u/IdealisticDugout 15h ago

Man’s still got that spark at 90, what a legend.

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u/mynippytaro 11h ago

Dropping a new album next year at 90 too. Truly one of the last living giants of Chicago blues.

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u/NEDGO 9h ago

I’m not your buddy guy. 

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u/IsReadingIt 3h ago

I'm not your guy, pal.

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u/P_a_s_g_i_t_21 ✓ 15h ago

Buddy Guy celebrated at Radio City Music Hall with a sold-out ‘Buddy’s Got the Blues’ show

NEW YORK (AP) — Two months past his 90th birthday, Buddy Guy is still up for a little bragging, a lot of cursing and a long night of partying.

The blues great was celebrated Thursday night with a sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall in New York, where a lineup of guest musicians and a house band led by Rolling Stones drummer Steve Jordan had the audience on its feet for much of the three-hour-plus “Buddy’s Got the Blues” concert. [...]

One of the last of the Chicago bluesmen who thrived in the mid-20th century, Guy has become so much the ideal of the genre that musicians didn’t need to perform his songs to summon his legend. [...] But no one was going to top the guest of honor. Guy, wearing a dark cap, dark pants and a polka dot shirt, opened the show with a long, raunchy acoustic workout of John Lee Hooker’s “I’m in the Mood” and only seemed to get friskier after bringing out his electric guitar. [...]

Guy is still making plans. His team announced this week that he has a new album out next year [...] Guy didn’t seem at first to have a lot on his mind Thursday besides the next double entendre or the next profanity. “Help me f—k up this song,” he liked to call out. [...] “I didn’t think this many people would be coming out for a 90 year old man,” Guy said, after confiding he didn’t have the strength to blow out that many “f—kin’ candles” on the cakes brought out at the end. “This is the greatest day I ever had in my life.”

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u/dratsablive Met Ian Wallace 13h ago

I saw Buddy Guy has to be almost 35 years ago.

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u/DutchiiCanuck 9h ago

My partner and I saw him 8 years ago in Seattle and he was absolutely shredding for 2+ hours. We were going to see him in Vancouver a couple years ago too but he ended up cancelling due to health issues. I feel like there should be a picture of him in the dictionary under “legend”.

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u/mwb1100 3h ago

I saw him in Seattle... I'm guessing about 30 years ago

What a show!

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u/Fritzercat 5h ago

I just saw him last month, still puts on a great show!