Blues, According to Buddy Guy

This year's Annual Kennedy Center Honor, the highest official recognition for excellence in the arts, well deservedly went to Buddy Guy. According to the citation the reward celebrated Guy’s

“tremendous influence on virtually everyone who’s picked up an electric guitar in the last half century, including Clapton, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Slash, ZZ Top, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and John Mayer.”

Buddy who arrived to Chicago's blues scene from his native Louisiana in October 1957, believes the windy city is the true home of the blues. In Chicago, he became a true disciple of blues legend Muddy Waters in the late 1950s, and now at the age of 76, he is admired as the standard bearer for Chicago blues. He is making some of the best music of this era.