Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy performs in Grass Valley on October 29

WHO: The Center for the Arts presents

WHAT: Buddy Guy
with Grease & Grime Duo opening

WHEN: Tuesday, October 29, 8:00PM

WHERE: Veterans Memorial Auditorium
255 South Auburn Street, Grass Valley, CA 95945

TICKETS: $48 members, $58 non-member
$75 Premium – reserved seating and parking
The Center Box Office – 530-274-8384 ext 14
BriarPatch Co-op Community Market – 530-272-5333
Tickets online here.

WEBPAGE: www.thecenterforthearts.org
http://thecenterforthearts.org/buddy-guy/
http://www.buddyguy.net/

The Center for the Arts brings six-time Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and living Chicago Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy to Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Grass Valley on Tuesday, October 29.

In a career spanning nearly five decades, Buddy Guy has more than 50 albums under his belt. Most recently he added the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors and NARM Chairman’s Award for Sustained Creative Achievement to his long list of achievements.

Besides winning six Grammy Awards and being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Buddy Guy has earned 28 Blues Music Awards, the first annual Great Performer of Illinois Award, a Billboard Music Awards’ Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone named Buddy Guy one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Buddy Guy has influenced rock titans such as: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Buddy Guy first ventured from his hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana to check out the post war electric Chicago blues explosion of the late 1950s. He became a house guitarist at Chess Records and a member of Muddy Waters’ band.

MEMBER OF MUDDY WATERS’ BAND

“He took me, he took Little Walter, he took Junior Wells, he took James Cotton, and he treated us all like we were his children. I just felt like, this isn’t my biological father but the father of me in music and I better listen. This is my second dad and I better listen if I want to learn something. That was the kind of connection that we all had with him, and until the day he died, I felt like he was the father of my musical career,” said Buddy Guy of Muddy Waters.

Buddy Guy combined a blazing modernism with a fierce grip on his roots, playing frantic leads heavy with swampy funk on Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor” and Koko Taylor’s “Wang Dang Doodle” as well as on his own Chess sides and the fine series of records he made with harp man and long time collaborator Junior Wells.

In August 2013, Buddy Guy’s recent RCA Records release, “Rhythm & Blues” debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Blues Charts. “Rhythm & Blues” is the follow-up to his 2010 Grammy Award-winning album, “Living Proof.” The album shows the 76-year-old musician is still at the peak of his creativity.

“I’m trying to keep the blues alive. It was created by some of the best that ever was, but has been forgotten by the big radio stations. You can turn on some of the biggest radio stations in this country or any other country and you may hear what came up in the late 50s or 60s of rock, or whatever you want to call it, playing a version of a Muddy Waters record, but they won’t play Muddy’s version.

The young kids out there don’t know nothin’ about Muddy Waters and they won’t unless you play him once or twice a week. Then they might say, “Oh, I see where they got it from.” That’s my goal, and I’m gonna fight for that until I leave,” said Buddy Guy.

—Peter Wilson