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A shot of the blues
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Pacific Sun
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July 25, 2008
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Guitar great Buddy Guy records the album of his dreams
He's a gracious guitar god. Onstage, Buddy Guy has earned the respect of such rock-hard guitar heroes as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Beck, but the Chicago blues legend is modest in his own assessfnent of a spotty recording career that spans more than half a century. "I've been in this business a long time-I've dedicated my life to it," he says during a phone call from his Chicago home. "The way the blues is, i there are a lot of ups and downs-more downs than ups. I've been trying ever since I first walked into a studio to say, give Buddy Guy the same consideration that Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray and ...
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