Buddy Guy is celebrating his 90th birthday with a star-studded concert, enlisting the likes of Eric Clapton, John Mayer Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks, Jon Batiste among many others to play with him.
The blues legend is hosting Buddy’s Got the Blues: A 90th Birthday Concert Celebration on October 1 at Radio City Music Hall in New York, where the rest of the lineup includes no shortage of blues-rock firepower as Gary Clark Jr., Shemekia Copeland, Robert Cray, Samantha Fish, Eric Gales, Billy F Gibbons, Ivan Neville, Robert Randolph, Bobby Rush, Isaiah Sharkey, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jimmie Vaughan, Ally Venable, Willie Weeks and Kim Wilson will all take the stage as well.
“Can’t wait to celebrate 90 years of living, loving, and playing the blues with all my friends,” Guy said in a statement on Tuesday. “We’ll make it a night not just for me, but for the folks who taught us, the friends we’ve played with, and the ones coming up behind us.”
Tickets for the show will go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. ET.
Guy is one of the last remaining electric blues pioneers and is widely regarded as one of the most influential guitarists of all time. Steve Jordan the prolific drummer and producer best known for his work with the Rolling Stones, is serving as the evening’s music director, while the evening’s executive producers are Keith Wortman, Garry Buck and Scooter Weintraub.
Guy made a famed cameo in Sinners last year too, a fitting easter egg for a film celebrating the power and mysticism of the blues. The film had helped bring the blues to a younger audience, and others are looking to celebrate the genre now as well. Morgan Freeman, a longtime blues fan himself, is releasing an album of blues classics later this year, he announced last week.
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