{"id":42717,"date":"2026-03-06T09:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42717"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:04:31","slug":"buddy-guy-reflects-on-his-blues-legacy-as-sinners-takes-center-stage-at-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42717","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Guy reflects on his blues legacy as ‘Sinners’ takes center stage at Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"
Blues legend Buddy Guy is gaining a wave of new fans \u2014 some from surprising places \u2014 thanks to his role in the Oscar-nominated film \u201cSinners.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the movie came out, I went to this grocery store I\u2019ve shopped at for 35 years,\u201d Guy said with a grin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girl who always checks me out just started screaming. I thought I’d done something wrong. She said: \u2018You’re in the movie!\u2019 I said: \u2018You didn\u2019t scream the last 35 years you\u2019ve seen me,\u2019\u201d he recounted.<\/p>\n

Set in 1932 Mississippi, \u201cSinners\u201d stars Michael B. Jordan as identical twins Smoke and Stack, who return home from Chicago to open a juke joint in an old sawmill. Their big opening night takes a supernatural turn when vampires crash the party.<\/p>\n

Director Ryan Coogler says casting Guy had special meaning. \u201cBuddy Guy was the last touring musician my late uncle James would regularly go see,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was an honor to have him in this film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guy said he agreed instantly when Coogler approached him at his Chicago club called Buddy Guy’s Legends. \u201cI think I sold another album after that,\u201d Guy joked.<\/p>\n

Now 89, Guy still traces everything back to hearing B.B. King on the radio as a kid in rural Louisiana. Too poor to buy guitar strings, he made his own from screen wire. \u201cI had blood coming out of my fingers,\u201d he said. He credits King and earlier bluesmen for everything he learned.<\/p>\n

Born to sharecroppers, Guy didn’t see indoor plumbing until his late teens. He moved to Chicago in the late 1950s, working days as a tow-truck driver and playing nights for $2.<\/p>\n

Even after nine Grammy wins, including this year’s award for Best Traditional Blues Album, Guy still feels a little stunned by the attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are guitar players who can play five times better than me,\u201d he said. \u201cThey come to me asking what to do, and I say, \u2018Damn if I know, man.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

As he approaches 90, slowing down isn’t on the agenda. He’ll kick off his birthday tour in Toronto after shows in Australia, aiming, as always, to \u201cmake somebody smile.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it comes to legacy, Guy keeps it simple: \u201cThat I loved everybody. If everybody were like me, you wouldn\u2019t have a mad person in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSinners,\u201d distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, leads this year’s Oscars with 16 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Coogler and Best Actor for Jordan.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blues legend Buddy Guy is gaining a wave of new fans \u2014 some from surprising places \u2014 thanks to his role in the Oscar-nominated film \u201cSinners.\u201d \u201cAfter the movie came out, I went to this grocery store I\u2019ve shopped at for 35 years,\u201d Guy said with a grin. \u201cThe girl who always checks me out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}