Skin Deep
July 26, 2008
BUDDY GUY
As he jams with Eric Clapton around the middle of his latest CD, Buddy Guy says, "The blues are all around me, I just find something I can use." That's seldom been a problem throughout Guy's career, which seems to be only getting more potent as he ages. At 72, Guy plays his guitar with the sting of someone a third his age and sings with the authoritative bark of a grizzled vet you know better than to mess with. But that doesn't stop anyone from playing along, and Guy certainly seems happy to school the "young'uns"—whether he's dueling with Clapton on "Every Time I Sing the Blues" or dancing around Robert Randolph's pedal steel on the galloping "That's My Home." On "Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes," Guy ponders the future of the blues, reaching no conclusions but assuring us on these 12 tracks that its present is in pretty good hands.—Gary Graff
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