Buddy Guy, the 88-year-old blues guitar legend, had a celebrated cameo this year in Sinners, director Ryan Coogler's action-horror blockbuster and multi-layered cultural treatise about vampires invading a speakeasy in the Jim Crow South. Because I am at a phase in life where I do not make it to the movie theater for non-children's movies, I have not seen it yet, but I did see Buddy Guy perform at the B.B. King Blues Festival as a teenager, so I'm excited to report to you that our man isn't stopping yet.
Fresh off his big cinematic moment, Guy has announced Ain't Done With The Blues, an album set for release this summer on his 89th birthday. "This album is about where I’ve been, it's about where I’m going, and the people I learned everything from," Guy says. "...Muddy, Wolf, Walter, Sonny Boy, BB, I could go on and on. Before they passed, they used to say, 'Man, if you outlive me, just keep the Blues alive,' and I’m trying to keep that promise. Now, I can’t kick my leg up high as I used to, or jump off the stage like I did in my 20’s and 30’s, but I’m going to give you everything I got as long as I got it."
Ain't Done With The Blues follows up Guy's 2022 album The Blues Don't Lie. Guests include the Blind Boys Of Alabama, Peter Frampton, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Joe Bonamassa, and — on lead single "How Blues Is That?" — Mr. Joe Walsh. Listen below.
TOUR DATES:
06/20 - Mashantucket, CT @ Foxwoods Resort Casino
06/21 - Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap
06/24 - Champaign, IL @ Virginia Theatre
06/26 - St. Louis, MO @ The Factory
06/27 - Rockford, IL @ Coronado Theatre
06/28 - Joliet, IL @ Rialto Square Theatre
07/10 - Selbyville, DE @ Freeman Arts Pavilion
07/11 - Jim Thorpe, PA @ Penn’s Peak
07/13 - Hampton Beach, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
07/14 - Redbank, NJ @ Count Basie Center for The Arts
07/16 - Wheeling, WV @ Capitol Theatre
07/18 - Lafayette, IN @ Loeb Stadium
07/19 - Rochester Hills, MI @ Meadowbrook Amphitheatre
08/06 - Tucson, AZ @ Fox Tucson Theatre
08/08 - Chandler, AZ @ Gila River Resorts Wild Horse Pass
08/10 - Cerritos, CA @ Cerritos Center for The Performing Arts
08/12 - Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain Winery
08/13 - Santa Rosa, CA @ Luther Burbank Center for The Arts
08/16 - Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
Ain't Done With The Blues is out 7/30 via Silvertone/RCA.
