Expand<\/a><\/p>\nBut no one was going to top the guest of honor. Guy, wearing a dark cap, dark pants and a polka dot shirt, opened the show with a long, raunchy acoustic workout of John Lee Hooker\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m in the Mood\u201d and only seemed to get friskier after bringing out his electric guitar.<\/p>\n
He leered and joked with longtime friend Shemekia Copeland on a duet of \u201cRock Me Baby,\u201d left no doubt about the meaning of \u201cto buzz all night long\u201d in Slim Harpo\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m a King Bee\u201d and carried on a lot more when joined by one of his few contemporaries, Bobby Rush, just a month away from his 93rd birthday. Everyone came on at the end for an all-out, self-fulfilling \u201cGot My Mojo Workin.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Guy is still making plans. His team announced this week that he has a new album out next year, produced by Jordan and featuring multi-instrumentalist Ivan Neville, bassist Willie Weeks and others who played at Radio City Music Hall.<\/p>\n
Guy didn\u2019t seem at first to have a lot on his mind Thursday besides the next double entendre or the next profanity. \u201cHelp me f\u2014k up this song,\u201d he liked to call out. But the tributes offered by the younger performers and the presence of Rush, who testified that he would have walked from Mississippi just to be here, left him moved and near tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think this many people would be coming out for a 90 year old man,\u201d Guy said, after confiding he didn\u2019t have the strength to blow out that many \u201cf\u2014kin\u2019 candles\u201d on the cakes brought out at the end. \u201cThis is the greatest day I ever had in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Two months past his 90th birthday, Buddy Guy is still up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134918,134919,75,84,83,9,24,63,5358],"class_list":["post-363386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-buddy-guy","tag-buddys-got-the-blues","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-radio-city-music-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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