Rating: 5/5 stars
With BB King's passing this year, the spotlight falls on 79-year-old Buddy Guy as the talisman of the Blues genre.
Guy links the blues of today with the traditions that began when the migration of the former Southern States sharecroppers to the industrial might of Chicago occurred
in the 1940s.
While he is a generation behind the likes of Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf, his arrival at 21 in the Windy City exposed him to the hotbed of electric Chicago Blues.
Although he had already developed a distinctive guitar style which he had developed in Baton Rouge, for some reason Leonard Chess didn't rate him, so it was on the smaller Cobra label that Guy began his recording career.
