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Buddy Guy’s 5 greatest guitar songs
By Jenna Scaramanga published
The electric blues pioneer, Chicago guitar great and world's greatest living bluesman's career in five key tracks

Buddy Guy announces farewell tour, featuring Eric Gales, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Ally Venable and more
By Matt Owen published
Tom Hambridge and King Solomon Hicks will also join the blues guitar veteran, who bids adieu to extensive touring

From divisive prog-pop to a slice of classic blues: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche, Matt Owen published
With these guitar-led tunes from the likes of In Flames, Mars Volta, TERMINA, Buddy Guy, Living Colour and Steve Vai and Hannah Jadagu, fall's off to a flying start

From somber blues guitar duels to Shadows-esque guitar-pop: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
By Matt Owen, Jonathan Horsley, Sam Roche, Jackson Maxwell published
The best in new guitar music – featuring fresh tracks from Hermanos Gutiérrez and Dan Auerbach, Buddy Guy and Jason Isbell, Fit For a King, Demi Lovato, the Wombats and more

Buddy Guy announces new album and teams up with Jason Isbell for its first single, Gunsmoke Blues
By Jonathan Horsley published
The iconic bluesman's new album is titled The Blues Don't Lie and is scheduled for a September 30 release

11 essential Willie Dixon covers
By Damian Fanelli published
These covers – by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, the Rolling Stones, Buddy Guy, Cream, and more – show the influence of this hugely important figure in blues and rock history

10 pro guitarists who broke strings onstage – and how they recovered
By Jonathan Horsley published
The rock royals, pop icons and blues heroes who kept their cool in the heat of battle and styled it out even after going a string down...

Why Buddy Guy loves polka dots
By Peter Hodgson published
The blues icon tells the poignant tale behind the pattern that appears on his signature gear – and how his love of the Stratocaster inspired Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck to pick up the Fender classic themselves

Learn the Chicago blues shuffle style
By Kirk Fletcher published
Kirk Fletcher gives you a lesson in the blues guitar style pioneered by the great Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and Magic Sam

Kenny Wayne Shepherd recruits Buddy Guy and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram for inaugural Backroads Blues Festival tour
By Matt Owen published
The six-date event, which takes places this August, has been envisaged as an annual show, and aims to revive the "traditional touring blues festival" format
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