Living Proof

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One of the most respected and lauded blues artists of our time, Buddy Guy is the greatest exponent of classic Chicago electric blues. He is a thrillingly inventive guitarist, a passionately soulful singer and a peerless showman. In the course of a 45-year professional career, he has sold millions of albums, earned five Grammy Awards and won twenty three W.C. handy Blues Awards – more than any other single artist. Any discussion of Buddy Guy invariably involves a recitation of his colossal musical resume and hard earned accolades. He’s a rock’n’roll Hall of Fame inductee, a chief guitar influence to rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck 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. Living Proof includes 11 new studio cuts, including the first single, “Stay around A Little Longer” with B.B. King, the first time these two Blues greats have worked together. It also includes one other feature, this time with Carlos Santana on “Where the Blues Begins.” The opening track, “74 Years Young” establishes the theme of this album, after all this time and countless career accolades, Buddy continues to search for new sounds and fresh ideas.