Buddy Guy has revealed that despite thoughts of retiring, he’s not ready to hang up that polka dot Strat quite yet. It’s a decision the 88-year-old blues icon say is directly related to his concern over the state of the blues.
“I thought about retiring twice,” Guy admits in a new interview with Guitar Player. “But I thought about all those great blues players who are no longer with us – B.B. King, Lightnin’ Hopkins, all those guys – and they used to tell me, ‘You need to keep playing and keep representing the blues,’ ’cause they don’t play it on radio or anything anymore.
