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 ...

If you happened to be at the corner of Wabash and Balbo at 11 p.m. in early February, you would have seen a small crowd gathered around an 87-year-old man with a beaming smile. Nattily attired in a ...

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Since June of 1984, just a little over a year removed from the death of legendary Chicago bluesman Muddy Waters, Chicago Blues Fest has operated annually in the Windy City as the country’s largest ...

A cold night with temps plunging below zero in Chicago can’t stop Buddy Guy. A standing-room-only crowd packed into his Legends club on a frigid January night, waiting in anticipation for not just the ...

In 1957, at the age of just 21, Buddy Guy left Louisiana for Chicago in search of the blues. Born to sharecroppers in Lettsworth, Louisiana, not far from the Mississippi border, Guy worked on the farm ...

During a dangerously cold night in Chicago’s South Loop, Buddy Guy’s Legends was on fire. Friday night marked the 10th show of blues master George “Buddy” Guy’s annual January residency at his ...