His recording of Sly and the Family Stone's "You Can Make It If You Try" is released on the Sly tribute album Different Strokes By Different Folks. The recording also features John Mayer.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Eric Clapton and B.B. King. Clapton's remarks include his memory of seeing Guy's blues trio play at London's Marquee Club in 1965, a performance ...
Receives the Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album for Blues Singer.
Plays the first of three Jimi Hendrix Tribute Concerts at Seattle's Paramount Theatre. Other guests include Billy Cox and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Guy also performs at the shows in San Francisco and...
Joins John Mayer onstage for a taping of Austin City Limits. Double Trouble, Stevie Ray Vaughan's backing band, is Mayer's band for the show, which airs November 11.
Blues Singer is released.
Buddy Guy receives the National Endowment for the Arts' National Medal of Arts. Awarded by the President, the award recognizes "outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support and ava...
The Rolling Stones play Boston's 2,700-seat Orpheum Theatre. Guy opens, and later joins the Stones for the blues "Rock Me Baby."
Guy participates in the Jimi Hendrix 60th Birthday Concert tribute in Seattle.
Sweet Tea, recorded in Mississippi and emulating the rough North Mississippi hill country sounds of Junior Kimbrough and R.I. Burnside, is released.
Last Time Around, the final Buddy Guy & Junior Wells album, is released.
Receives the Blues Foundation's Keeping the Blues Alive Award for his Legends Club.
Junior Wells dies of lymphoma at the age of 63.
"SRV Shuffle," from Epic's A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan, receives the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Guy is one of several rock and blues luminaries on the track, which also inc...
Live! The Real Deal, recorded at Legends with G.E. Smith & The Saturday Night Live Band, is released.
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