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Buddy Guy announces farewell tour, featuring Eric Gales, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Ally Venable and more

Tom Hambridge and King Solomon Hicks will also join the blues guitar veteran, who bids adieu to extensive touring

Buddy Guy has announced his retirement from extensive touring, with the legendary blues guitar veteran set to embark on a Damn Right Farewell tour early next year.

Guy has had one of the most prolific live careers of anyone in the blues world, which started back in the mid-'50s when he first began performing with bands in Baton Rouge. Now, after seven decades of performing, the 86-year-old has called time on his touring days.

For the event, Guy will be joined by a series of special six-string guests, including Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Eric Gales – players at the forefront of this generation’s blues scene who were no doubt influenced by Guy’s own style.

Similarly influential players such as Ally Venable, Tom Hambridge and King Solomon Hicks complete the guest list, with each player set to cameo on a handful of separate nights.

The Damn Right Farewell tour will kick off on February 17 in Rockford, Illinois, and will see Guy make his way across Indiana and Michigan throughout the rest of the month.

After six February dates, Guy will venture to Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and more throughout the whole of March, which comprises almost a full-month of near-consecutive dates.

The final stretch will see Guy perform three dates in April, all of which will take place in Australia.  At the time of writing, the Damn Right Farewell tour is scheduled to concluded on April 12 in Newtown, though more dates are to be added shortly.

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See below for a full list of current dates, and to find out when each guest guitarist will crop up for a cameo.

Tickets are set to go on sale this Friday (October 21) at 10am local time. Head over to Buddy Guy’s website for more details.

Guy recently released his latest studio album, The Blues Don’t Lie, which became the bluesman’s seventh number one album. For the first single, Gunsmoke Blues , Guy teamed up with Jason Isbell .

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Matt is a Senior Staff Writer, writing for Guitar World , Guitarist and Total Guitar . He has a Masters in the guitar, a degree in history, and has spent the last 16 years playing everything from blues and jazz to indie and pop. When he’s not combining his passion for writing and music during his day job, Matt records for a number of UK-based bands and songwriters as a session musician.

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Famed blues guitarist Buddy Guy will embark on his ‘Damn Right’ Farewell tour next year. The legendary musician’s final trek will begin in February of 2023.

Guy has confirmed a batch of February and March tour dates in the U.S. with more to come. The eight-time Grammy winner starts the excursion in his current home state with concerts in the Illinois cities of Rockford on February 17 and Joliet on February 18. He then ends the month with stops in Fort Wayne, Indiana (February 23); New Buffalo, Michigan (February 24); Anderson, Indiana (February 25) and Evansville, Indiana (February 26).

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The legendary bluesman continues the tour in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on March 1 before heading to Texas for shows in Austin (March 3 and 4), Houston (March 5) and Dallas (March 8). Next comes a trip to Oklahoma featuring concerts in Tulsa (March 9) and Newkirk (March 10). Additional performances follow in Kansas City (March 11); Chesterfield, Missouri (March 13); Memphis (March 14); Knoxville (March 16); Atlanta (March 17); Nashville (March 18); Spartanburg, South Carolina (March 20); Chattanooga, Tennessee (March 21); Charlotte (March 22); Greensboro, North Carolina (March 23); Savannah, Georgia (March 25) and Toronto (March 30 and 31).

Tickets go up for grabs to the general public this Friday, October 21 at 10 a.m. local venue times . Visit the artist’s official website for further information on all dates, with more expected to be announced.

Fans at Guy’s “Damn Right Farewell” tour will see hits from throughout his career, in addition to his new number-one album. Amid core classics, audiences will hear new favorites, including “Gunsmoke Blues” ft. Jason Isbell, the spellbinding “We Go Back” with Mavis Staples, and a harmonious collaboration with James Taylor on “Follow the Money.”

This tour, the blues album chart-topper will be reunited with his Grammy Award-winning producer/songwriter and longtime collaborator Tom Hambridge, to bring audience members even more emotionally-charged music with bone-chilling hard-earned lyrics and lessons that continuously receive critical recognition and praise.

At 86 years young, Guy proves that it gets greater later as he continues to record and tour around the world.

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Having begun his extensive career back in the mid-1950s, Buddy Guy has spent over seventy years taking his talents on the road. Now, aged 86, the blues guitarist is apparently ready to call it a day.

The Damn Right Farewell Tour begins in mid-February in Rockford, Illinois, before he makes his way across Indiana, Michigan and Louisiana – with the latter taking place in Baton Rouge, the city where he first started his career.

At the time of writing, dates in the US, Canada and Australia have been announced.

Throughout the tour, Guy will be joined by some of the most highly-regarded guitarists of the blues world including Eric Gales , twenty-three-year-old Grammy-winner Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and others undoubtedly inspired by Guy’s work.

During his prolific time in the music industry, Buddy Guy has earned an excess of awards. These include eight Grammys, a 2015 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, thirty-seven Blues Music Awards and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

His most recent album, The Blues Don’t Lie , was released earlier this year. The album was the guitarist’s thirty-forth studio release and followed his 2018 Grammy Award-winning LP, The Blues Is Alive And Well .

Tickets to Buddy Guy’s Damn Right Farewell Tour are available now. Dates for the North America and Australia leg of the tour are listed below, further dates are yet to be announced.

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Buddy Guy Wants the Music Industry to Stop Treating the Blues ‘Like a Stepchild’

As he approaches his 87th birthday and begins his farewell tour, the guitar trailblazer reflects on the past, present and future of the blues.

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It’s no great secret why Buddy Guy has chosen to make this year’s touring cycle his last.

“My next birthday (July 30) I’m gonna be 87, man,” the blues icon tells Billboard from his home in Chicago, where he’s operated a club, Buddy Guy’s Legends, since 1989. “My late friends — Muddy (Waters), B.B. (King) — all of them were, like, 20 years older than me and they used to look at me and say, ‘Boy, wait’ll you get to be my age….’ And they’re no longer here for me to tell them that it’s true.

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“I’m still going to probably play some of the big festivals,” promises Guy, who began the Damn Right Farewell Tour on Feb. 12 at the Mahnidra Blues Festival in Mumbai, India and has dates booked through early October. “The New Orleans Jazz Festival wanted me to play there for the rest of my life, which is once a year, so that’s not too bad. But what’s coming up this year is a lot. We’re gonna make it to a lot of places we’ll probably never play again.”

The tour puts a cap on one aspect of what’s been a legendary career by any measure, one that’s stretched across more than 70 years and 19 studio albums and has included associations with forebears such as Waters, King and many more, as well as acolytes like Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, the late Jeff Beck and Steve Ray Vaughan, Bonnie Raitt, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Johnny Lang, John Mayer and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram. Clapton has called Guy “the best guitarist I’ve ever heard” on frequent occasions. Carlos Santana considers him “probably the most naked musician on the blues scene — just raw and intense in every note he plays.”

It’s not only peers who have sung Guy’s praises. He’s won eight Grammy Awards plus a Grammy lifetime achievement honor — performing during the afternoon premiere ceremony at this year’s event — as well as 23 Blues Music Awards. He’s received a Kennedy Center Honor, a National Medal of Arts, an American Academy of Achievement Award and a Billboard Century Award in 1993. He’s been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Musicians Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. A portion of U.S. Highway 418 going through his hometown of Lettsworth, La., is named Buddy Guy Way, and there’s a marker that bears his name on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi Blues Trail.

Guy’s biography has the elements of a classic blues song. He grew up a child of poor sharecroppers. When not picking cotton, he learned to play on a two-string diddley bow made from a piece of wood and wires from a window screen. “My brothers and sisters used to tell my mama, ‘Get him outta here with that noise,’ ’cause I didn’t know how to play anything. I was just fooling around,” remembers Guy, who penned a memoir, When I Left Home: My Story , a decade ago. Eventually a stranger who saw him playing on his sister’s porch steps told him, “Son, you could probably learn to play if you had a real guitar” and bought the youngster a Harmony acoustic that Guy subsequently donated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“Where I grew up, you’d have sandlot baseball teams to play games, and that’s about it,” Guy says. “I wanted to do something the rest of the other kids couldn’t do, and that was play guitar. And I heard Lightnin’ Hopkins and T-Bone Walker, all those great blues players and thought that’s something I wanted to try, too.

“The first thing I learned how to play was ‘Boogie Chillen” by John Lee Hooker. I was so excited when I figured it out that I walked a mile and found every distant relative I had and said, ‘Look! Listen!’ They’d say, ‘Yeah, that kind of sounds pretty good there.’ I finally had something — and I was afraid to quit so I held it so long my fingers started bleeding.”

By the mid-50s Guy was in Baton Rouge, working as a janitor at Louisiana State University and playing in bands around town. He recorded a pair of demos during 1957 for Ace Records, which were not released. Later that year he moved to Chicago, where he became the hot new arrival on the scene, learning at the feet legends such as Waters — who brought Guy a bologna sandwich when he first came to hear him — Willie Dixon, Junior Wells (whom Guy backed on several albums under the pseudonym Friendly Chap) Ike Turner and others. He played in competitions with Otis Rush and Magic Sam, signing an early deal with Cobra Records before joining the Chess label in 1959.

“It got back to Leonard Chess that Jimi Hendrix wanted to know who I was,” Guy says. “When Leonard Chess found that out he sent Willie Dixon to my house, and Willie said, ‘Put a suit on. Leonard wants to see you.’ When I went there Leonard bent over and said, ‘I want you to kick me in my butt.’ I said, ‘For what?!’ And he pointed out what those British guys were saying about me and said, ‘You came here with this and we were too dumb to listen.'”

Guy continued to play shows and made records for Vanguard, Isabel and JSP during the ’70s and ’80s, some with his younger brother Phil Guy, who followed in his guitar-playing footsteps. He was part of the Festival Express train tour in Canada with the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band and others before opening the Checkerboard Lounge on Chicago’s South Side in 1972 with L.C. Thurman. Guy gave up his stake 13 years later and set up Buddy Guy’s Legends — where he’s in residence throughout every January — in the city’s South Loop.

That came just in time for Guy’s own legend to finally gain momentum. First he was Eric Clapton’s invited guest for the 24 Nights concert series at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1990 and 1991. Then Guy signed with Silvertone Records (still his label home) for 1991’s Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues , his first release in nine years. He’s released 12 albums since — including last year’s The Blues Don’t Lie — many featuring a who’s who of players vested in keeping Guy’s career alive and vital.

Despite that eminence, Guy still considers himself a student of music. “I took things from the (younger) people, too,” he acknowledges. “You’re never too old to learn something.” A case in point was his Grammy-nominated 2001 album Sweet Tea , for which producer Dennis Herring took him to Mississippi Hill Country and introduced him to the music of Junior Kimbrough — whom he called “this kid” at the time — and R.L. Burnside. “I said, ‘What the hell is this?'” Guy recalls. “Y’know, I played with Muddy Waters, Son House, Fred McDowell…I thought I had found everything to come out of Mississippi…but I went back there and started digging in again.”

Throughout his resurgence, Guy has conducted himself with a kind of missionary exuberance, sworn to keep the blues alive as he saw a generation of elders, and even some contemporaries, pass away. (He played with Stevie Ray Vaughan in East Troy, Wisc., on Aug. 26, 1990, the day before Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash. The two were supposed to have lunch together the following day in Chicago.) He’s still happy to help nurture new talent, whether on stage at Legends or by paying for the occasional recording session for an upstart. Guy has been particularly aggrieved at the lack of mainstream media support for the genre, especially at radio, where it’s consigned to specialty programs, NPR and satellite.

“Blues is like a stepchild now,” he says. “I’ve kept doing it so people don’t forget Muddy and Wolf, B.B., all the rest of ’em. But the big FM stations don’t play blues — if they do, I don’t hear it. And if people can’t hear it…It’s like they say about cooking; you don’t know how good the gumbo is in Louisiana until you go down there and taste it. Whether you like it or not is up to you, but at least you tasted it. And the blues is being treated like that. I don’t care how good a blues record you make — if nobody hears it, it’s just there. It bothers me because I’ve dedicated my life to the blues, and a lot of other people have, too. What did we do to be treated like that? I don’t know, man, but I’d like to see it get straightened out.”

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Buddy Guy Announces 2023 Damn Right Farewell Tour Dates

by Jacob Uitti October 20, 2022, 2:15 pm

When it comes to blues guitarists, few have had a career like Buddy Guy. The six-string player who blends blues and rock in a whirlwind of sound is one of the all-timers.

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So, when he announced his latest string of tour dates, which are slated to be his last, the world perked up. The 86-year-old Guy will head out on the road for his Damn Right Farewell later next year, beginning in February with a swath of dates and more that will soon be added.

Guy, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Kennedy Center Honoree, will be joined by Eric Gales and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram on the road for his final outing.

So far, only shows for February and March have been announced in the U.S. but there will be more to come for the eight-time Grammy Award winner. The tour begins in his home state of Illinois with shows in Rockford on February 17 and Joliet the following day. Then Guy will hit Fort Wayne, Indiana; New Buffalo, Michigan; Anderson, Indiana; and Evansville, Indiana.

On March 1, he will play Baton Rouge, Louisiana, then he will head back to Texas for shows in Austin, Houston, and Dallas. Following that, he’ll play Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Newkirk, Oklahoma. Kansas City follows, with more dates throughout the country. See below for a full list of dates announced so far.

Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday (October 21) at 10 a.m. local time. Get tickets HERE via Ticketmaster.

Buddy Guy 2023 Damn Right Farewell Tour Feb 17 – Rockford, IL – Coronado PAC Feb 18 – Joliet, IL – Rialto Square Theatre Feb 23 – Fort Wayne, IN – Embassy Theatre Feb 24 – New Buffalo, MI – Silver Creek Event Center Feb 25 – Anderson, IN – Paramount Theatre Feb 26 – Evansville, IN – Victory Theatre Mar 01 – Baton Rouge, LA – Baton Rouge River Center Theater Mar 03 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater Mar 04 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater Mar 05 – Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall Mar 08 – Dallas, TX – Majestic Theatre Mar 11 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater Mar 13 – Chesterfield, MO – The Factory Mar 14 – Memphis, TN – The Orpheum Theatre Mar 16 – Knoxville, TN – Tennessee Theatre Mar 17 – Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Symphony Hall Mar 20 – Spartanburg, SC – Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium Mar 21 – Chattanooga, TN – Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium Mar 22 – Charlotte, NC – Ovens Auditorium Mar 23 – Greensboro, NC – Steven Tanger Center for the Perf. Arts Mar 30 – Toronto, ONT – Massey Hall Mar 31 – Toronto, ONT – Massey Hall Apr 08 – Tyagarah, Australia – Bluesfest Apr 10 – St Kilda, Australia – Palais Theatre Apr 12 – Sydney, Australia – Enmore Theatre

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Blues guitar legend  Buddy Guy will hit the road one last time for the 2023 Damn Right Farewell Tour .

Born George Guy on July 30, 1936, Buddy Guy has been one of the leading proponents of Chicago blues since starting his career in the late-’50s, having influenced guitarists from Eric Clapton , Jimi Hendrix , Jimmy Page , and Keith Richards  to  Stevie Ray Vaughan , Jeff Beck , Gary Clark Jr. , and John Mayer . He has earned widespread acclaim and recognition in the form of eight Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, National Medal of Arts, and Kennedy Center Honors, and he was ranked 23rd on  Rolling Stone ‘s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Guy will kick off  The 2023 Damn Right Farewell Tour on February 17th at Coronado Performing Arts Center in Rockford, IL. He will stick around the Midwest for shows in Joliet, IL (2/18); Ft. Wayne, IN (2/23); New Buffalo, MI (2/24); Anderson, IN (2/25); and Evansville, IN (2/26). Then in March, he will head to his former stomping grounds in Baton Rouge, LA on the 1st before heading to Texas for shows in Austin on the 3rd and 4th, Houston on the 5th, and Dallas on the 8th.

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Following additional stops in Oklahoma and Missouri, Guy will travel to the South for dates in Tennesee, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, ending with a two-night stand in Savannah, GA on March 25th and 26th. He will then trek north to Toronto, ON for two shows at Massey Hall on March 30th and 31st. The final shows of the tour are currently scheduled to take place in Australia in April, but more dates will be added soon, according to the announcement. Guitarists Christone “Kingfish” Ingram  and  Eric Gales  will serve as support on select dates.

Local pre-sales for tickets to Buddy Guy’s Damn Right Farewell Tour  begin today, Wednesday, October 19th at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, October 21st at 10 a.m. local time. For a complete list of dates and tickets, visit Guy’s website .

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Buddy Guy, 87, Moves All Dates of His Farewell Tour to 2024

Buddy Guy holding a copy of his 2022 release, The Blues Don’t Lie (Photo via his Facebook page)

Buddy Guy has moved the remaining dates of his 2023 farewell tour to 2024, citing a “standard medical issue” and advice from his medical team. The blues guitar legend, who turned 87 on July 30, began the tour in February. The news of the move now gives him significant time off and follows previous dates that were already moved to April-May. His most recent concert took place on September 16. Tickets for the Damn Right Farewell Tour are available here .

Guy’s 2018 album, The Blues Is Alive and Well , earned the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. He released The Blues Don’t Lie in 2022.

The recipient of a 2015 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Guy ’s career spans over 50 years with just as many albums released. Career highlights include eight Grammy Awards, 37 Blues Music Awards, Kennedy Center Honors, NARM Chairman’s Award for Sustained Creative Achievement, Billboard Music Awards’ Century Award for distinguished artistic development, Presidential National Medal of Arts, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Buddy Guy 2024 Damn Right Farewell Tour (Tickets are available  here )

Apr 02 – Columbus, OH – Palace Theater (was 11-15-23) Apr 04 – Baltimore, MD – The Lyric Theatre (was 9-29-23) Apr 05 – Bensalem, PA – XCite Center at Parx Casino (was 10-6-23) Apr 07 – Greensburg, PA – Palace Theatre (was 9-28-23) Apr 09 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Center (was 9-30-23) Apr 11 – Portland, ME – State Theatre (was 10-10-23) Apr 12 – Concord, NH – Capitol Center For the Arts (was 10-1-23) Apr 14 – Westbury, NY – NYCB Theatre (was 10-12-23) Apr 27 – Austin, TX – Austin Blues Festival May 01 – Richmond, VA – Dominion Arts Center (was 10-17-23) May 03 – Morristown, NJ – Mayo PAC (was 10-7-23) May 04 – Jim Thorpe, PA – Penn’s Peak (was 10-14-23) May 06 – Boston, MA – The Wilbur (was 10-3-23) May 08 – Medford, MA – Chevalier Theatre (was 10-4-23) May 09 – Englewood, NJ – Bergen PAC (was 10-8-23) May 11 – Wallingford, CT – Toyota Oakdale Theatre (was 10-13-23) Jun 19 – Lawrence, KS – Lied Center of Kansas (was 11-6-23) Jun 21 – Shreveport, LA – Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium (was 11-2-23) Jun 22 – Hot Springs, AR – Oaklawn Event Center (was 11-3-23) Jun 24 – Manhattan, KS – KSU McCain Auditorium (was 11-5-23) Jun 26 – Champaign, IL – Virginia Theatre (was 11-8-23) Jun 29 – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre (was 11-10-23) Jun 30 – Roanoke, VA – Berglund Perf. Arts Theatre (was 11-11-23) Jul 16 – Wilmington, NC – Wilson Center (was 11-12-23) Jul 19 – Pompano Beach, FL – Pompano Beach Amphitheatre Jul 20 – St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amphitheatre Jul 23 – Mobile, AL – Saenger Theatre (was 10-25-23) Jul 24 – Montgomery, AL – Montgomery PAC (was 10-26-23) Jul 26 – Birmingham, AL – Alabama Theatre (was 10-27-23) Jul 27 – Cherokee, NC – Harrah’s Cherokee Resort Events Center (was 10-28-23) Aug 09 – Des Plaines, IL – Rivers Casino Event Center (was 11-18-23) Aug 10 – Kalamazoo, MI – Kalamazoo State Theatre (was 11-17-23) Aug 14 – Nashville, TN – Schermerhorn Symphony Center (was 11-20-23) Aug 16 – Saginaw, MI – Temple Theatre (was 11-16-23)

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One of the most unaffected human beings that I have ever met. I saw him in Atlanta in the 1990s and as I was there early I was waiting in the lobby when a man comes out to smoke a cigarette. I started to tell him I had been looking forward to this venue as I was a big Buddy Guy fan when I suddenly realized that I was talking to Buddy Guy. An experience that I’ll never forget.

Looking forward to seeing him at the Hollywood Bowl and in the Crossroads Guitar Festival show

I saw him when he toured with the Stones. His show a few weeks ago at the Hollywood Bowl was outstanding! I could’ve listened to him for hours. His showmanship, humor, and even nastiness were the best. Enjoyed the show so much that I’ve now arranged to fly from L.A. to Pompano Beach to see him again 10/22 and i got 2nd row seats front and center. Hope he gets better by then. He is a true treasure.

Get Well Buddy! See you in Bensalem, after a much needed rest. You’ll be on fire! ALL of my love to you!!

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Buddy Guy’s ‘Damn Right Farwell Tour’ is opportunity to check out nine of his essential recordings

• Published: Aug. 16, 2023, 6:00 a.m.

Buddy Guy's "Damn Right Farewell Tour" is just one of more than 20 shows coming to Jacobs Pavilion in 2023. Buddy Guy

• Malcolm X Abram, cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Buddy Guy is a living legend of the blues. The singer-guitarist, who turned 87 in July, will bring his “Damn Right Farewell Tour” to Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica on Saturday, August 19, with Jimmy Vaughn and Samantha Fish opening. Tickets begin at $20 and are still available at AXS .

As with several of his peers and heroes, Guy was the son of sharecroppers, a country boy from Lettsworth, Louisiana, who picked cotton and learned on a self-made guitar before being gifted an acoustic. At the age of 21, Guy, just as many of his peers and heroes did, migrated up north to the big windy city of Chicago, where he plugged in his guitar and found his signature shark tooth sharp tone and guitar neck-strangling, avalanche-of-notes style and his unique brand of showmanship that helped burnish his reputation as a young blues lion.

Guy was signed to the famed Chess record label, which didn’t seem to know what to do with him, so he left Chess to make some good records in the late 1960s on Vanguard.

Guy was a favorite of many of the Boomer British blues-rock stars but never found the R&B and soul crossover success of some other bluesmen, such as (his peer and hero) B.B. King. Despite being name-checked and imitated by guys like Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix, it wasn’t until the ‘90s, after a rough time with no record contract in the ‘80s, that Guy’s career finally fully bloomed. He’s been rightfully added to the pantheon of blues greats and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 by King and Eric Clapton.

Though Guy has said he’ll play guitar until his hands can’t hold the instrument anymore, he knows his time on the road is winding down.

“I watched all the old guys like B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters go until they got old,” Guy told Guitar World Magazine earlier this year.

“Often, when you watch older people playing shows, you think, ‘Man… they just don’t sound the way they did when they were younger.’ I remember listening to some of my heroes when they got older and thinking it wasn’t the same.” he said.

There have been many alleged “farewell tours” across the past 20 or so years. Some either go on for seemingly ever (KISS, are you ever really going to be done?) or turn out to be outright marketing B.S. (we’re pointing middle fingers at you, Ozzy and Motley Crue).

But we’re going to take the octogenarian at his word and assume this will be the last time local fans can see him in a Cleveland venue. Hopefully, this show’s rarity will attract some fans who may have skipped the show. So to get the electric blues lovers and the blues curious ready for the “Damn, Right Farewell Tour” here are nine releases by Guy that serve as a good primer of his decades-long career and also make for some Damn good blues listening.

“I Left My Blues in San Francisco” (1967) – Guy’s solo debut album, mixing Chicago blues with dashes of horn-riffing R&B and soul and even some orchestration. Guy’s singing voice is already intense, while his guitar tone is sharp, though not as wild as it would become. This record has real deal, electric blues on “When My Left Eye Jumps” and “Leave My Girl Alone,” the latter tune was covered by Stevie Ray Vaughn. Also, dig the funky 60s R&B grooves on “Buddy’s Groove” and “Crazy Love.” Highlights: “Buddy’s Groove,” “Leave My Girl Alone.”

“Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The Blues” (1972) – One of many collaborations between Guy and the singer and mouth harp master Junior Wells. This wonderfully recorded gem was released in 1972 and cobbled together from tracks recorded in 1970 and 1972, including a few featuring members of the J. Geils Band as well as admirer Eric Clapton. The album opens with the funky Guy-sung R&B tune “A Man of Many Words” before settling into some fine traditional blues, mostly sung by Wells. Guy’s guitar tone is crystal clear and his playing is firey but controlled throughout. Highlights: “A Man of Many Words,” “T-Bone Shuffle.”

“ Alone & Acoustic ” (1991) – This collaboration with Junior Wells finds the pair in fine form and is one of the few recordings featuring Guy on both six and 12-string acoustic guitar. Recorded in France in 1981 while on tour, the two blues masters sound relaxed and comfortable. The intimate feel is like sitting in the room with a couple of very talented friends as they hang out, talk and jam. Highlights: “Catfish Blues,” “High Heel Sneaker.”

“Damn Right I Got The Blues” (1991) – This album followed in the well-worn footsteps of fellow blues legend John Lee Hooker, whose star-studded 1989 comeback album, “The Healer,” earned him a Grammy and the best record sales of his long career. Guy, who hadn’t recorded in a decade and whose career was languishing doing one-nighters in small clubs, recorded this album featuring a few of his admirers and fellow Rock Hall inductees, namely Clapton, Beck and Mark Knopfler. This comeback record is pretty slickly produced, as are most of his Silvertone albums, but it serves to remind folks that Guy was still here and still had the blues. Highlights: “Damn Right, I’ve Got The Blues,” “Rememberin’ Stevie.”

“Sweet Tea” (2001) – This is a personal favorite among his 21st-Century records. Following a successful string of big studio blues-rock records, Guy’s team took him to Mississippi to record a batch of songs by rural blues guys such as Junior Kimbrough and CeDell Davis, who had gained some hip cache by being name-checked by young rockers, including The Black Keys. “Sweet Tea” is unlike anything else in Guy’s catalog. Kimbrough didn’t care about traditional 12-bar blues forms, preferring an almost raga-like blues drone, and Guy sits in those slow, crawling grooves just fine with his guitar screaming beautiful bloody murder throughout. The album is arguably a bit over-produced to sound raw and loose; it’s almost distracting with all the panning across the stereo field, big plate reverbs and such. But Guy’s passionate vocals and rippin’ and roaring guitar bring you right back to the center, to the heart. Highlights: “Done Got Old” “Baby Please Don’t Leave Me,” “Tramp.”

“The Complete Chess Studio Recordings” (1992) – For those who want the more traditional early ‘60s Chicago Blues sound, this 25-track two-CD collection culls everything Guy recorded for the storied blues and soul label from 1960-1966. The young Guy’s vocals are pretty intense but don’t have the gravitas they would gain over the next few decades and his guitar tone is still clean but already pricks like a wasp’s stinger. This collection has trad blues tunes, a few novelty dance numbers, some previously unreleased tunes and several instrumentals. Highlights: “Stone Crazy,” “Lip Lap Louie,” “Every Girl I See.”

“Living Proof” (2010) – Guy’s 21st-century output on Silvertone is pretty consistent, with the important variables being the quality and number of guests and song choices. On album number 15, Guy and producer Tom Hambridge put together a loose concept album of Guy’s life as a working lifelong musician. He is once again in fine vocal and guitar form. Hambridge’s production is full but with just enough edge and the guest spots are unobtrusive with only B.B. King weighing in on a sweet, sentimental ballad “Stay Around A Little Longer” and Carlos Santana laying down some licks. The album earned Guy a 2011 Grammy for best contemporary blues album. Highlights: “74 Years Young,” “Skanky,” “Stay Around A Little Longer”

“Blues Don’t Lie” (2022) – Guy’s most recent album, released in 2022, shows the legend is still going strong. This one may have a few more guests than necessary, but Guy sounds comfortable and happy and his playing is great. Highlights: “Follow The Money, “King Bee,” “Sweet Thing”

“ The Blues Giant/Stone Crazy ” (1981) – This album is pure fire-breathing vocals and guitar. With his brother Phil Guy on rhythm guitar, Guy tears through six extended tracks as if he were on stage on a hot, humid night in a sweltering chitlin’ circuit watering hole. You can hear all the signature weird noises he makes while he’s strangling notes from his guitar and the rhythm section keeps everything moving with toe-tapping grooves. Perhaps not for the blues purist, but it’s a deeply funky rockin’ blues record. Highlights: “You’ve Been Gone Too Long” “When I Left Home.”

Buddy Guy performs Saturday, Aug. 19, at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica, 2014 Sycamore St, on the west bank of Cleveland’s Flats. Jimmie Vaughn and Samantha Fish open. Showtime is 7 p.m. Tickets, $20 to $79.50, are available at axs.com.

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The legendary Blues singer and guitarist Buddy Guy (86) added new dates for his farewell tour in 2023. Named “Damn Right Farewell”, the tour has scheduled shows for February, March, April, May, June, July, August and October in India, Australia, North America and Europe.

The musician started his musical career 1953 is known for being an exponent of the Chicago Blues and was an influence to many famous guitarists like  Jimi Hendrix , Eric Clapton,  Jimmy Page , Keith Richards and more. Since his debut record in 1967, Guy released 20 studio albums with classic songs like: “Feels Like Rain”, “Damn Right, I’ve Got Blues”, “Mustang Sally” and “Stone Crazy”.

His most recent album, “The Blues Don’t Lie”, was released in 2022 and follows his 2018 Grammy Award-winning LP, “The Blues Is Alive And Well”.

All Buddy Guy 2023 farewell tour dates

• 11 – MUMBAI, India – MAHINDRA BLUES FESTIVAL 2023
• 17 – ROCKFORD, IL
• 18 – JOLIET, IL
• 19 – JOLIET, IL
• 23 – FORT WAYNE, IN
• 24 – NEW BUFFALO, MI
• 25 – ANDERSON, IN
• 26 – EVANSVILLE, IN
• 1 – BATON ROUGE, LA
• 3 – AUSTIN, TX
• 4 – AUSTIN, TX
• 5 – HOUSTON, TX
• 8 – DALLAS, TX
• 9 – TULSA, OK
• 10 – NEWKIRK, OK
• 11 – KANSAS CITY, MO
• 13 – CHESTERFIELD, MO
• 14 – MEMPHIS, TN
• 16 – KNOXVILLE, TN
• 17 – ATLANTA, GA
• 18 – NASHVILLE, TN
• 20 – SPARTANBURG, SC
• 21-  CHATTANOOGA, TN
• 22 – CHARLOTTE, NC
• 23 – GREENSBORO, NC
• 25 – SAVANNAH, GA
• 30 TORONTO, ON
• 31 – TORONTO, ON
• 8 – TYAGARAH, – BYRON EVENTS FARM
• 8 – SOUTH WHARF, BLUESFEST MELBOURNE 2023
• 10 – ST KILDA, Australia
• 12 – SYDNEY, Australia
• 14 –  SYDNEY, Australia
• 27 – PRIOR LAKE, MN
• 28 – IOWA CITY, IA
• 29 – PEORIA, IL
• 30 – NASHVILLE, IN
• 9 – GREEN BAY, WI
• 10 – CLEAR LAKE, IA
• 11 – OMAHA, NE
• 13 – CORBIN, KY
• 8 – HAMPTON BEACH, NH
• 9 – RIDGEFIELD, CT
• 10 – LEWISTON, NY
• 13 – NORTHAMPTON, MA
• 15 – KINGSTON, NY
• 16 – ATLANTIC CITY, NJ
• 24 – ROCHESTER HILLS, MI
• 25 – HUBER HEIGHTS, OH
• 30 – MONTRÉAL, QC
• 7 – ROTTERDAM, NORTH SEA JAZZ FESTIVAL 2023
• 8 – COGNAC, COGNAC BLUES PASSIONS FESTIVAL 2023
• 11 – PARIS,
• 16 – PRAGUE, Czech Republic
• 19 – SDOT YAM, Israel
• 20 – TEL AVIV-YAFO, Israel
• 10 – SEATTLE, WA
• 3 – BOSTON, MA

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• Love Her With a Feeling by Lowell Fulson
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Multi-Grammy® Award-winning blues icon Buddy Guy will bid adieu to extensive touring with his “2023 Damn Right Farewell Tour” featuring a performance at Meadow Brook Amphitheatre on the campus of Oakland University on Saturday, June 24 at 7:30 p.m. Oakland University Credit Union is the exclusive presenting partner of Meadow Brook Amphitheatre.

Guy’s “Damn Right Farewell Tour” will see The Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award-winner performing hits from throughout his career, in addition to his latest #1 album The Blues Don’t Lie. Amid his core classics you’ll hear new fan favorites from the project, including “Gunsmoke Blues” ft. Jason Isbell, the forever timely and spellbinding “We Go Back” with Mavis Staples, and a harmonious collaboration with James Taylor on “Follow the Money.”

The Blues Don’t Lie is Guy’s 13th Top 10 Billboard Blues album. The chart-topper reunited with his Grammy® Award winning producer/songwriter and longtime collaborator Tom Hambridge, who rejoins him on tour, to bring audience members even more emotionally charged music with even more bone-chilling hard-earned lyrics and lessons that continue to garner critical recognition and praise.

The recipient of the 2015 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Guy’s incredible career spans over 50 years with just as many albums released. Career highlights include 8 Grammy® Awards, 38 Blues Music Awards, the most any artist has had, a Kennedy Center Honors, NARM Chairman’s Award for Sustained Creative Achievement, Billboard Music Awards’ Century Award for distinguished artistic development, Presidential National Medal of Arts, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to name a few.

At 86 years young, Guy proves that it gets greater later as he continues to record and tour around the world with performances at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater and more.

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Buddy Guy and Kenny Wayne Shepherd team up to bring you an unforgettable evening. Buddy Guy Buddy Guy’s Damn Right Farewell tour will see The American Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award winner performing hits from throughout his career, in addition to his new #1 album. Amid his core classics you’ll hear new fan favorites from the project, including “Gunsmoke Blues” ft. Jason Isbell, the forever timely and spellbinding “We Go Back” with Mavis Staples, and a harmonious collaboration with James Taylor on “Follow the Money.” The follow up to his sixth Billboard #1 album The Blues Is Alive And Well, the Blues Album chart-topper reunited with his Grammy Award winning producer/songwriter/drummer and longtime collaborator Tom Hambridge, who rejoins him on tour, to bring audience members even more emotionally-charged music with even more bone-chilling hard earned lyrics and lessons that continue to garner critical recognition and praise. The recipient of the 2015 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Buddy Guy’s incredible career spans over 50 years with just as many albums released. Career highlights include 8 Grammy Awards, 38 Blues Music Awards, the most any artist has had, a Kennedy Center Honors, NARM Chairman’s Award for Sustained Creative Achievement, Billboard Music Awards' Century Award for distinguished artistic development, Presidential National Medal of Arts, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to name a few. Kenny Wayne Shepherd There are few artists whose names are synonymous with one instrument and how it's played in service to an entire genre. Utter the phrase "young blues rock guitarist" within earshot of anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the modern musical vanguard and the first name they are most likely to respond with will be Kenny Wayne Shepherd. The Louisiana born axeman and songsmith has sold millions of albums while throwing singles into the Top 10, shining a light on the rich blues of the past and forging ahead with his own modern twist on a classic sound he has embodied since his teens. In a 20-year recording career that began when he was just 16, Shepherd has established himself as an immensely popular recording artist, a consistently in-demand live act and an influential force in a worldwide resurgence of interest in the blues. Know Before You Go: This show's special effects include haze.

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At age 86, Buddy Guy is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy has received 8 GRAMMY Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, 38 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #23 in its "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."

In 2019, Buddy Guy won his 8th and most recent GRAMMY Award for his 18th solo LP, “ The Blues Is Alive And Well ”.

In July of 2021, in honor of Buddy Guy’s 85th birthday, PBS American Masters released “ Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away ”, a new documentary following his rise from a childhood spent picking cotton in Louisiana to becoming one of the most influential guitar players of all time. The documentary features new interviews with Buddy Guy, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Gary Clark Jr, and more. Watch the full documentary at PBS Online here.

Though Buddy Guy will forever be associated with Chicago, his story actually begins in Louisiana. One of five children, he was born in 1936 to a sharecropper’s family and raised on a plantation near the small town of Lettsworth, located some 140 miles northwest of New Orleans. Buddy was just seven years old when he fashioned his first makeshift “guitar”—a two-string contraption attached to a piece of wood and secured with his mother’s hairpins.

In 1957, he took his guitar to Chicago, where he would permanently alter the direction of the instrument, first on numerous sessions for Chess Records playing alongside Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and the rest of the label’s legendary roster, and then on recordings of his own. His incendiary style left its mark on guitarists from Jimmy Page to John Mayer. “He was for me what Elvis was probably like for other people,” said Eric Clapton at Guy’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2005. “My course was set, and he was my pilot.”

Seven years later, July 2012 proved to be one of Buddy Guy’s most remarkable years ever. He was awarded the 2012 Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime contribution to American culture; earlier in the year, at a performance at the White House, he even persuaded President Obama to join him on a chorus of “Sweet Home Chicago.” Also in 2012, he published his long-awaited memoir, When I Left Home .

These many years later, Buddy Guy remains a genuine American treasure and one of the final surviving connections to an historic era in the country’s musical evolution.

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Buddy Guy tour 2024 announced : The famous blues guitarist Buddy Guy starts next year at his farewell tour "Damn right". The last tour of the legendary musician starts in February 2023.

Guy confirmed a series of tour dates in February and March in the United States. The eight-time Grammy winner begins his journey through the home state with performances in Rockford, Illinois on February 17 and Joliet on February 18. He then concludes the month with stops in Fort Wayne, Indiana (February 23), New Buffalo, Michigan (February 24), Anderson, Indiana (February 25) and Evansville, Indiana (February 26). The legendary bluesman continues his tour in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on March 1, before going to Texas for concerts in Austin (March 3 and 4), Houston (March 5) and Dallas (March 8). Next, a trip to Oklahoma with concerts in Tulsa (March 9) and Newkirk (March 10). Performances in Kansas City (March 11), Chesterfield, Missouri (March 13), Memphis (March 14), Knoxville (March 16), Atlanta (March 17), Nashville (March 18), Spartanburg, South Carolina (March 20), Chattanooga, Tennessee (March 21), Charlotte (March 22), Greensboro, North Carolina (March 23), Savannah, Georgia (March 25) and Toronto (March 30-31).

Guy's 2018 album, the Blues is Alive and well, won the Grammy Award for Best traditional Blues Album. In 2022 he released the Blues Don't Lie. Guy receives the Grammy Lifetime achievement Award 2015 and his career spans more than 50 years with as many albums released. His career highlights include eight Grammy Awards, 37 Blues Music Awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Narm Chairman's Award for sustained Creative achievement, the Billboard Music Awards' century Award for distinguished Artistic Development, The Presidential National Medal of Arts and his recording at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Local presales Buddy Guy 2024 tickets for Damn right Farewell Tour will be selling today, Wednesday 19 October, at 10:00 local time. The ticket sales for the general public start on Friday, October 21 at 10:00 local time.

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Buddy Guy Concerts Schedule

February 17 – Rockford, IL – Coronado PAC February 18 – Joliet, IL – Rialto Square Theatre February 23 – Fort Wayne, IN – Embassy Theatre February 24 – New Buffalo, MI – Silver Creek Event Center February 25 – Anderson, IN – Paramount Theatre February 26 – Evansville, IN – Victory Theatre March 01 – Baton Rouge, LA – Baton Rouge River Center Theater March 03 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater March 04 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater March 05 – Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall March 08 – Dallas, TX – Majestic Theatre March 11 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater March 13 – Chesterfield, MO – The Factory March 14 – Memphis, TN – The Orpheum Theatre March 16 – Knoxville, TN – Tennessee Theatre March 17 – Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Symphony Hall March 20 – Spartanburg, SC – Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium March 21 – Chattanooga, TN – Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium March 22 – Charlotte, NC – Ovens Auditorium March 23 – Greensboro, NC – Steven Tanger Center for the Perf. Arts March 30 – Toronto, ONT – Massey Hall March 31 – Toronto, ONT – Massey Hall April 08 – Tyagarah, Australia – Bluesfest April 10 – St Kilda, Australia – Palais Theatre April 12 – Sydney, Australia – Enmore Theatre

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