My favorite Buddy Guy story goes back a few years. It unfolded during Labor Day weekend 1990 in downtown Louisville. This was long before the days of Forecastle, when the top outdoor festival was the Louisville American Musicfest, a multigenre outgrowth of an annual bluegrass event the city had hosted for more than a decade. The gathering went heavy on blues and roots-driven music presented on multiple stages near Main Street. Performers included Joe Ely, Lonnie Brooks, and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Over at the Belvedere, the Austin Lounge Lizards had just completed a Saturday afternoon set of renegade bluegrass when a shout came from the main concert stage outside the Kentucky...
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