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 LEGENDARY BLUES ICON BUDDY GUY MAKES A STATEMENT WITH ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW ALBUM ‘AIN’T DONE WITH THE BLUES’ OUT JULY 30, HIS 89TH BIRTHDAY The Album Produced By Longtime Collaborator Tom Hambridge Features Special Guests The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram And Joe Bonamassa Buddy Kicks Off Album News With Brand New Single ‘How Blues Is That?’ Feat. Legendary Eagles’ Guitarist Joe Walsh BUDDY GUY ~ HOW BLUES IS THAT (FEAT. JOE WALSH) An architect of the blues, a craftsman of the building blocks that laid the foundation for today's modern R&B, the multi-GRAMMY Award winning blues icon Buddy Guy is here to tell the masses that he 'AIN'T DONE WITH THE BLUES' via the announcement of his brand new album set to release via Silvertone/RCA Records on July 30, 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,” shares Buddy on the LP. “...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.” He continues, “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.” Fresh off of his surprise appearance in Ryan Coogler's box office smash hit film SINNERS, Buddy Guy's new album 'AIN'T DONE WITH THE BLUES' follows his seventh #1 album THE BLUES DON'T LIE. Last year, the Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award winner announced his Damn Right Farewell Tour, where Buddy bid adieu to extensive touring. But that didn’t mean the urge to perform ever left the legend’s bones, nor that more music wasn’t on the way. “They don’t play blues on your radio anymore like they used to on the big AM/FM stations,” Buddy offers regarding his appearance in SINNERS and decision to release another album. “So things like the movie, or performing out on the road, or making a new record, it’s important because some young people might see it or hear it and say, “Oh, I got to know more about that.”’ The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee kicks off the lead up to his new album with the release of new single “How Blues Is That?’ featuring legendary Eagles’ guitarist, Joe Walsh and co-written with Grammy Award winning producer/songwriter Tom Hambridge and Richard Fleming. Amid the track, Buddy’s leading bold and affirming vocals give recall to his life and journey, while fervently building in tandem with Rob McNelley’s slick electric guitar and growing tickles of Kevin McKendree’s piano chords. “How Blues Is That?” is just one single off the 18-track project that will boast even more emotionally-charged music with even more bone-chilling hard earned lyrics and lessons that continue to garner critical recognition and praise. ‘AIN’T DONE WITH THE BLUES’ is Buddy Guy’s follow up to his 2022 Billboard #1 Blues Album Chart lead THE BLUES DON’T LIE, which followed his 2018 Billboard #1 Blues Album Chart lead THE BLUES IS ALIVE AND WELL. Always a welcomed return to music, Buddy Guy won “Best Traditional Blues Album” at the 2019 Grammy Awards, and was nominated again at the 2023 Grammy Awards. This followed his 2015 album BORN TO PLAY GUITAR, which again debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top Blues Album charts and won “Best Blues Album” at the 2016 Grammy Awards. 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 received), a Kennedy Center Honor, The 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 89 years young, Buddy Guy proves that it gets greater later as he continues to record, tour, and remind the world what icons are made of. ABOUT BUDDY GUY At age 88, 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." 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 in 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, 2012 proved to be one of Guy’s most remarkable years ever. He was awarded the 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.” In the same year, Guy published his long-awaited memoir, ‘When I Left Home’. Guy’s last studio album, ‘The Blues Don’t Lie’ (RCA Records, September 2022) debuted at #1, making it his thirteenth Top 10 Billboard Blues album. As he continues to record and tour the United States in 2025, and even make appearance on the big screen in film such as Ryan Coogler’s critically-acclaimed blockbuster hit, SINNERS, Buddy Guy remains a genuine American treasure and one of the final surviving connections to an historic era in the country’s musical evolution. Stay connected with Buddy Guy:
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