Friday Jun 26, 2015
Friday, June 26, 7:30PM
Weesner Family Amphitheater – Minnesota Zoo
13000 Zoo Blvd
Apple Valley, MN 55124
At age 78, Buddy Guy is used to new surprises, challenges, and accolades. He’s a Rock and 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 that city’s halcyon days of electric blues. He has received 6 Grammy Awards, 28 Blues Music Awards, the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone ranked him in the top 25 of its “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” Buddy was also awarded the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime contribution to American culture, and has even persuaded President Obama to join him on a chorus of “Sweet Home Chicago” during a performance at the White House. His memoir,When I Left Home, was published in 2012, and in the same year he released Live at Legends, which has been nominated for Best New Recording in the Living Blues Awards.
Buddy Guy is a genuine American treasure, and one of the final surviving connections to an historic era in the country’s musical evolution. And still, as one glorious track on Rhythm & Blues puts it, he claims that “All That Makes Me Happy is the Blues.”