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My Time After Awhile: Buddy Guy's Long Apprenticeship

Geoffrey Himes, The Coda Collection, February 2021

BUDDY GUY turned 84 in 2020, and he's been a blues legend for a long time. It's a good thing he's lasted so long, because he got a late start. He had already turned 30 before he got to make his first solo album, and he was 50 before he became a bona fide star.

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