'Blues Singer" - is an album full of pure, acoustic blues numbers, and is already the 16th solo album of blues legend Buddy Guy. Featuring 12 songs penned in part by such well-known blues protagonists as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. The 1963 album 'Muddy Waters, Folk Singer', on which the young Buddy Guy played the second guitar next to the great Muddy Waters, now served 40 years later as an aesthetic model. B.B. King (acoustic lead) and Eric Clapton (acoustic slide) both play on Buddy's version of the John Lee Hooker classic "Crawlin' Kingsnake"; Eric also plays on "Lucy Mae Blues." Additional credits are earned by Jim Keltner (dr), Tony Garnier (bass) and James "Jimbo" Mathus (guitar and slide guitar). 4 Grammys, 19 W. C. Handy Blues Awards and the Billboard Magazine Lifetime Achievement Century Award decorate Buddy Guy's vita and document his achievements.