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Do you feel like you get strong attendance at your shows because people realize that you represent an important part of history that they need to come see? As you said, there are not many of the original greats left. You’ve got like a really substantial tour itinerary coming up, starting in August, and going through next April. I love all music, but at least let me hear Muddy Waters once or twice a month, you know? So whatever little help I can give with the blues is certainly appreciated from my end of it. Now, hardly none of your big FM radio stations will play blues anymore. My mother used to tell me, “Better late than never.” Whatever you can give the blues a lift with, I’m for it, because blues has been treated like a stepchild. I learned from the Lightnin’ Hopkins and Muddy Waters and the B.B. My friend Bobby Rush and myself were speaking yesterday about all of my friends who are gone who I learned everything from. GUY: Well, you know, I was kind of surprised. VARIETY: When you were approached to do this “American Masters” documentary, were you thinking, yeah, it’s about time, or is it that big a milestone for you? But as he tells Variety in this Q&A, there’s a marker out on Louisiana Highway 418 that may mean more to him than any of the other kudos. King), celebration by the Kennedy Center Honors (President Obama helped do the honors in 2012), a National Medal of the Arts (bestowed by Prsident Bush in 2003), a Grammy lifetime achievement award (2016) and many more. That represents a chance to see living history that encompasses, in one figure, membership in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (he was inducted in 2005 by Eric Clapton and B.B. In August, he’ll be back on the road for a national tour that takes him into April 2022. It’s a big week for Guy beyond the documentary: He turns 85 on July 30. (Besides being seen on PBS broadcast stations, it can be seen on-demand on the PBS app and at this web page.) Buddy Guy, the blues legend whose 1991 “Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues” firmly established him as part of the form’s upper firmament after decades of work, is the subject of a two-hour “ American Masters” documentary premiering this week.
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