Buddy Guy's $5 Million Home - Brief Article

Ebony, Sept, 2000 by Joy Bennett Kinnon

Guy and his Polka-dot guitar have gone around the world--twice. "I haven't refused to go anywhere," he says. When he's touring stateside, he travels in a customized tour bus that sleeps 13 and has a private lounge for him and a separate private lounge for his ban& Two Grammys and a boatload of awards later, he hasn't changed. He still loves to make music. Here is a man with a ninth-grade education who dropped out of school to help his family. He's a man British guitar legend Eric Clapton called the "best guitar player alive." And he's a man who still likes to put on his apron and make you a plate of something "that looks like your mama used to fix," as he says.

"A blues player like myself has so many ups and downs," Guy says, "more downs than ups, but I love it so much I even forgot what down is like. Even when I'm down, I think I'm up."

He may have been down once, but not anymore. He may still be playing the blues, but he's no longer living the blues.