Buddy Guy returns to Australia in 2023 for the final time on his 'Damn Right Farewell' tour.
A pioneer of Chicago Blues, his music has been the inspiration to many generations of influential guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and more. At age 86, his Damn Right Farewell tour will be the legend’s last. Get in quick and secure your tickets to catch him when he appears at Melbourne’s own Palais Theatre on April 10, 2023.
What you need to know
- The legendary blues titan Buddy Guy is bringing his Damn Right Farewell tour to Australia in 2023
- A pioneer of Chicago’s West Side sound, his music has influenced rock titans from Hendrix to Clapton and many more
- He’ll be performing at Melbourne’s own Palais Theatre on April 10
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At age 85, Buddy Guy has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has influenced rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr, John Mayer, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and just about every guitar player who has played the Blues, Blues Rock, and Hard Rock over the past 70 years.
He has pioneered Chicago’s fabled West Side sound and is still the living link to the city’s halcyon days of Electric Blues, from the late 1950s when he was in Chess Records’ House Band.
Buddy Guy has released a steady stream of albums since then and has received 8 GRAMMY Awards – winning his 8th and most recent GRAMMY Award in 2018 for his 18th solo LP, “The Blues Is Alive And Well”, and the Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award in 2015.
He has received 38 Blues Music Awards – the most any artist has ever achieved, the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a ‘Kennedy Center Honor’, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Plus, Rolling Stone Magazine has ranked him #23 in its “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”
Buddy Guy remains a genuine American treasure and one of the final surviving connections to a historic era in the country’s musical evolution. He is the last of the great Bluesmen performing today.
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