Chicago blues icon Buddy Guy's strongest album of the past decade or so is 2001's "Sweet Tea," a dark, jam-oriented affair on which the guitarist just let the tape roll in the studio. "Skin Deep" ...

Blues may be an ageless music, but most players ease into old age with relaxed grace. Not Buddy Guy, who sounds as distinctively piercing on "Skin Deep" as on his classic '60s Chess Records cuts or ...

Buddy Guy, "Skin Deep" (Silvertone/Zomba) 4 stars At 72 years old, Buddy Guy may just be getting warmed up. Along with B.B. King, Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana and others, he recently showed up on the ...

"Blues cats don't retire, they just drop," says Buddy Guy. That explains why the 72-year-old guitar legend and the genre's elder statesman, 83-year-old B.B. King, have banded together for yet another ...

At 72, Buddy Guy is the reigning king of the postwar Chicago blues scene—a mantle he inherited from his mentor, Muddy Waters, in a blaze of edgy, nervous guitar frenzy. But although he's been gigging ...