Multi-Grammy Award
winning blues icon Buddy Guy has released his brand new studio album, The Blues Is
Alive And Well via Silvertone/RCA Records. Included on the album are “Cognac” featuring Keith Richards & Jeff
Beck, “Blue No More” featuring James Bay, and the Sonny Boy Williamson
penned-classic “Nine Below Zero.” The album also features Mick Jagger joining
Buddy on “You Did The Crime.” Grammy Award winning producer/songwriter and
longtime collaborator Tom Hambridge produced the album and penned 13 original
songs for the album.
The press has been raving about the new tracks released thus
far — Rolling Stone called the first
track out “Nine Below Zero,” “searing” and “masterful” and declared “Buddy Guy
proves blues is alive and well” and Guitar World wrote “scintillating” and
“powerful.” Of the second song
released, “Blue No More” featuring James Bay, Billboard described it as a
“soulful slow-jam,” and Rolling Stone noted “…Bay knows he’s singing in the
company of musical royalty, so he pushes his voice as hard as he can, exploring
the rougher edges of his register. Buddy Guy is 81, but he shows no signs of
decreasing productivity.” Last week, Buddy released “Cognac” featuring Jeff
Beck & Keith Richards to continued raves. In their review, Rolling Stone
writes “the five-minute six-string showcase doubles as a bluesy drinking
session between the trio of ‘Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists’ as Guy
howls about women, the past and one late bluesman who was a drinking buddy.”
Guitar World calls “Cognac” “the trio’s wonderful concoction” and Grammy.com
writes it’s “a spell-binding dip into the blues.”
It was previously announced that Buddy Guy will be the
recipient of the The Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award on
September 12th ceremony at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Visit
http://americanamusic.org/ for more information.THE BLUES IS ALIVE AND WELL is
Buddy Guy’s follow up to his 2015 album Born To Play Guitar, which won “Best
Blues Album” at the 2016 Grammy Awards, debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top Blues
Album charts and marked Guy’s fifth #1 album on the chart and twelfth Top 10
Billboard Blues album.
In his quest to keep the genre vital, Guy chats about the
origin of southern blues and performs on David Letterman’s series, My Next
Guest Needs No Introduction, airing now on Netflix.
The Blues Is Alive And Well track list:
01 A Few Good Years
02 Guilty As Charged
03 Cognac (featuring Jeff Beck & Keith Richards)
04 The Blues Is Alive And Well
05 Bad Day
06 Blue No More (featuring James Bay)
07 Whiskey For Sale
08 You Did The Crime (featuring Mick Jagger)
09 Old Fashioned
10 When My Day Comes
11 Nine Below Zero
12 Ooh Daddy
13 Somebody Up There
14 End Of The Line
The recipient of the 2015 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award,
Buddy Guy’s incredible career spans over 50 years with just as many albums
released. Career highlights include 7 Grammy Awards, 37 Blues Music Awards,
Kennedy Center Honors, NARM Chairman’s Award for Sustained Creative
Achievement, Billboard Music Awards’ Century Award for distinguished artistic
development, Presidential National Medal of Arts, and induction into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame to name a few.
At 81 years young, Guy proves that it gets greater later as
he continues to record and tour around the world with recent performances at
the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Austin City Limits Live at the
Moody Theater and more (click here and see below for full touring schedule).
Stay connected with Buddy Guy:
BUDDY GUY TOUR DATES
8/25 Quebec, CN – Trois-Rivieres en Blues Festival
8/31 Peoria, IL – Peoria Blues Festival
9/06 Richmond, VA – Carpenter Theatre
9/07 Rocky Mount, VA – Harvester
9/09 Charleston, WV- Clay Center
9/13 Louisville, KY- Louisville Palace
9/20 Conway, AR- University of Central AR
9/27 Knoxville, TN – Tennessee Theatre
9/28 Greenville, SC – Peace Center
9/29 Chapel Hill, NC – UNC Chapel Hill
10/3 Windsor, ON – Caesars
10/5 Grand Rapids, MI – 20 Monroe Live
10/6 Ft Wayne, IN – The Clyde Theater
10/27 Monte Carlo, MONACO – Sporting Club
11/02 Frederikshavn, DENMARK – Blues Heaven Festival
11/03 Naestved, DENMARK – Blues Paradise
11/06 Paris, FRANCE- Salle Pleyel
2/14/19 Ft.
Lauderdale, FL – Rock Legends Cruise VII
2/15/19 Ft.
Lauderdale, FL – Rock Legends Cruise VII
2/16/19 Ft.
Lauderdale, FL – Rock Legends Cruise VII
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Lauderdale, FL – Rock Legends Cruise VII
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Lauderdale, FL – Rock Legends Cruise VII
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