NEW YORK (AP) — For Buddy Guy — a stalwart and staunch defender of the blues — there’s nothing more important than keeping his chosen genre at the forefront of conversation. It comes naturally: Guy is ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At his regular spot — the stool with “BG” on the back, way at one end of the bar — the owner of Buddy Guy’s Legends scans the ...

You would never know that Buddy Guy is one of the most acclaimed and accomplished guitarists in the long and storied history of the blues when conversing with the icon. Guy, 85, is humble to a fault.

Buddy Guy’s first guitar cost his father two dollars and only had two strings on it. He would go to sleep with it in his hand, walked around with it and played until his fingers almost bled. He taught ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Blues legend Buddy Guy blows out 83 candles on his birthday cake Tuesday. The Chicago guitarist continues a nonstop tour schedule (on this day he's in Colorado) and shows no signs of ...

Steve Miller recalled how he couldn’t keep up with Buddy Guy’s drinking rules but was able to take what he regards as some of the best advice he was ever given from Guy. Miller spent some of the early ...

This much about Buddy Guy is well known: at 84, he’s the last living member of the blues’ Greatest Generation of electric guitarists (the group that includes Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Albert King, John ...

When Nikolus Guy was growing up, his grandfather was just “grandpa.” Yes, he knew that grandpa played music and lived in a big house. But as he grew older, Nikolus started getting to know more about ...

As a matter of obligation, not ego, Buddy Guy thinks of himself as the last bluesman—or, at least, the last master of the electrified Chicago blues. My Profile of Guy this week depends not only on ...