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“When I went to England in 1965 with this Strat, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page said, ‘Man, I didn’t know that kind of guitar could play the blues’”: Buddy Guy on showmanship, Sinners– and why he has unfinished business with the blues

Is Buddy Guy our greatest living blues guitarist? As his 10th decade approaches, we meet the master for a frank talk about passing the torch, the importance of a sip of cognac and his advice for Hendrix

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“Someone once told me I had vibrato like Eric Clapton. I thought, ‘Well, if you’re gonna give me a compliment, you can definitely say that!’” Lindsay Ell on feel, failure and finding her voice – and what jams with Keith Urban and Buddy Guy taught her

Shania Twain's touring guitar ace opens up about her Buddy Guy baptism by fire and the raw questions that shaped her new EP, fence sitter. And she tells us that John Mayer is reassuringly human

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“You’ll laugh, but I thought he used to play too loud”: Buddy Guy remembers the first time he saw Jimi Hendrix play – and the warning he used to give him before gigs

Guy also remembers how Hendrix won the guitar amp “dogfight”

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“There has been a lot of awareness of the gentrification of the genre… People are craving more music that’s authentic”: Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram talks about his new blues label Red Zero

Its first release is his third album Hard Road

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"You only get one shot to do this correctly and I think we nailed it": Joe Bonamassa announces all-star tribute to B.B. King

B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 features Buddy Guy, Slash, Keb' Mo', Larkin Poe, Jimmie Vaughan, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi and many more

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“B.B.’s only wish was, ‘Do what you can to keep the blues alive.’ Hopefully this album gives a B12 shot to his legacy”: Joe Bonamassa announces a landmark B.B. King tribute album with a jaw-dropping roster of collaborators

B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 features Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, George Benson, Slash, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Larkin Poe, and Warren Haynes

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"I don't think she liked my music at all – which is why we bonded": What happened when Joe Bonamassa and Joanne Shaw Taylor were interviewed together for the first time

Up for discussion: AI, internet trolls, crapjournalists, dead birds, sausage dogs, nerd pyjamas and music execs who need a punch in the face

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“A good guitar solo should sound like an orgasm. I can hear it in Eddie Van Halen’s playing, and Jimi Hendrix. I live for the juicy notes”: Carlos Santana on playing like a soul singer and his visitations from B.B. King, Miles Davis and Stevie Ray Vaughan

Single-cuts are like merlot, solos are like grapefruit… the inimitable, peerless Carlos Santana shares stories from his legendary career and insights from the cosmos

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“There was the greatest guestlist in rock history – Jimmy Page, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Neil Young”: Jimmy Rip was a session man in demand by Mick Jagger and Tom Verlaine – then came a rock ’n’ roll icon

Armed with the Tom Verlaine’s first guitar, and his own first instrument, the 69-year-old session veteran has come home from Argentina to keep memories alive

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In 'Sinners' and his music, Buddy Guy is keeping the blues alive. It hasn't been easy

Blues legend Buddy Guy will release a new album on Wednesday, his 89th birthday

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“I said to myself, ‘Well, Buddy, you better hang on a little longer. My health ain’t doing too bad, so… I just try to play the best I can”: Buddy Guy says he’s not retiring until the blues gets a higher profile

The 88-year-old blues star says the lack of mainstream platforms for blues concerns him – but his Sinners cameo gives him cause for hope

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“I traveled around the world for four years, recording 22 guests in some crazy places”: Jimmy Rip remembers recording Jimmy Page, B.B. King, Buddy Guy and more for one of the greatest all-star albums of all time

The project saw the producer and guitarist travel the world and record legendary players in unusual locations

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“He was told early in his career that his playing was too loud, too strident and outside the accepted norms of the day”: Buddy Guy influenced Clapton, Page, Hendrix and countless others – here’s what you can learn from blues guitar’s greatest showman

No-one plays the blues like Buddy Guy – but that doesn't stop us trying. We look at four ways the blues icon approaches his solos. Warning: it's going to get fiery

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“I forgot to turn my guitar off. A lady passed by, and her dress tail hit the G string. I’ll never forget that. I’ve been doing it ever since”: How Buddy Guy accidentally stumbled upon guitar feedback – a tool that would shape his sound and style

The blues veteran’s approach to playing was changed forever after a random occurrence during an unassuming gig at a Chicago jam night

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"I really have beat the odds here. It's very surreal": Meet Ally Venable, the young blueser who's gone from being bullied at school to playing with Buddy Guy

Six albums into her career, Ally Venable has played with some of the greats, but she hasn't stopped lookig forward

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“There’s something endlessly gratifying about a relatively old rock dog learning new tricks – and convincingly pulling it off”: June 2025 Guitar World Editors' Picks

There's been plenty of heat this month, and not just the temperature outside. Check out some of that six-string (and seven-string... and eight-string) fire from Muse, Rafiq Bhatia, Eric Gales & Buddy Guy, Wunderhorse, Haim, and many, many more

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“We don’t know how much time any of us has, so while you have the opportunity, you should give it a shot”: Eric Gales taps Buddy Guy to pay tribute to his older brother – a forgotten hero of blues guitar

A Tribute to LJK celebrates the life and legacy of Gales' brother, Manuel Gales, aka Little Jimmy King, and features guest spots from Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith, and Christone "Kingfish" Ingram

Guitar World

“Edgar Winter invited me to jam. From the stage, you could see the door, and in walks Buddy. And I said, ‘He showed up!’” Earl Slick on the time he jammed in front of Buddy Guy at the blues great’s club – and won his heart

Guy would later invite Slick to jam with him, and it was a night that blew the Bowie guitarist’s mind

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“I always played B.B. King. His style was commercial, not like the gutbucket style”: You may not know his name, but Jimmy Johnson was a contemporary of Buddy Guy – and the ultimate example of a Chicago blues virtuoso who ventured well outside the box

Brother of acclaimed guitarist Syl Johnson, the late Jimmy Johnson was a singular player who was a mainstay of his city's legendary blues scene, and wowed onstage into his 90s

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Buddy Guy said he would take the blues “into the future,” and he was a guitar brother-in-arms of Mike Bloomfield. An unsung blues great talks influences, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and crossing over into jazz

A brilliant, inimitable guitarist, the late Joe Louis Walker merged Delta, Chicago, and West Coast blues styles with soul, gospel, and all-out aggressive rock

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“I was able to find three of them in the world. I wrote almost the entire score on this guitar”: Sinners composer Ludwig Göransson used vintage 1932 Dobros to write the movie’s music – and he scoured the globe to find them

Sinners – which stars Michael B. Jordan and Buddy Guy – boasts a compelling score that pays tribute to the blues, with a little help from three hard-to-find guitars...

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“B.B. King was in a wheelchair for maybe four or five years before he died, and I’m not on crutches yet”: Fresh off his cameo in Michael B. Jordan’s Sinners, Buddy Guy confirms he’s not done with performing just yet

Guy had previously embarked on an extended farewell tour – but is now revealing why he has decided to keep going

Guitar World

“Muddy Waters and BB King, I knew ’em before they passed away, and they told me, ‘Man, if you outlive me, just try to keep the blues alive’”: Buddy Guy is still on the road – and he’s back on the big screen in Michael B. Jordan’s Sinners

Guy feels the weight of responsibility to continue carrying the torch for the blues – and ensure that the genre’s pioneers are known to younger generations

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“Muddy Waters and BB King, I knew ’em before they passed away, and they told me, ‘Man, if you outlive me, just try to keep the blues alive’”: Buddy Guy has officially retired from touring – but he’s back on the big screen in Michael B. Jordan’s Sinners

Guy feels the weight of responsibility to continue carrying the torch for the blues – and ensure that the genre’s pioneers are known to younger generations

Guitar World

“Chess was cussin' when I got to the session with Muddy. But when he heard me, he just sat there with his mouth open”: Leonard Chess wanted to cash in on the folk boom, and asked Muddy Waters to bring him an old acoustic bluesman. He brought him Buddy Guy

Knowing his Mississippi roots, Chess essentially wanted Waters to find for him his own Robert Johnson. Waters had other ideas

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