Dylan Salfer has been busy. Three weeks ago, he was named best guitarist in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, and his band came in third place. Two weeks ago, he signed a deal with the ...

Best of 2024: As cross-cultural high points go in post-war austerity Britain, the American Folk Blues Festival tours that started in 1962 took some beating. Seemingly out of nowhere, iconic blues ...

Buddy Guy, who just turned 88, will be officially retired from the road by early fall. Only, before that happens, before the Chicago legend slows, a few facts demand context. For one, retirement doesn ...

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Blues legend Buddy Guy with special guest Tweed Funk will perform at 8 p.m. on Oct. 20 in Purdue University's Loeb Playhouse. This performance is presented by Purdue ...

Award-winning guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Selwyn Birchwood discovered his passion for the blues young. He was 13 when ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy has influenced some of the greatest rock guitarists of all time, including Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Gary Clark Jr. But the factors that led to his ...

Buddy Guy – the guy who friends and admirers lovingly call “M.F.” – so overwhelmed the Rolling Stones while performing “Champagne and Reefer” on stage with the band in 2008 that Keith Richards took ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Buddy Guy wasn”t shy about letting Ann Arbor know just how he was feelin” “I feel real good right ...

The winners of the 2008 Blues Blast Music Awards were announced Sunday November 2nd, 2008 at a Gala Blues celebration at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago, IL. Best Blues Band - Magic Slim & The ...

That moldy-peaches cliché “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” has rarely applied to anyone as much as Buddy Guy. As his former protégé Joe Bonamassa says in The Torch, a new doc about Guy, the now ...

Damn right, he’s got his own doc. Buddy Guy, the blues legend whose 1991 “Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues” firmly established him as part of the form’s upper firmament after decades of work, is the ...