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Buddy Guy
Solo artist Lettsworth United States
Buddy Guy is an artist from Lettsworth. Buddy Guy has 10 chart appearances on 9 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “74 Years Young”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #9. The station that charted Buddy Guy most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
Buddy Guy, born in Lettsworth in 1936, is the Chicago blues guitarist the rock gods keep pointing back to. Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Beck all took notes, and a younger crop, Gary Clark Jr. and John Mayer among them, is still taking them. Clapton once called him "the best guitar player alive".
He earned his stripes in the '60s at Chess Records, playing sessions behind Muddy Waters and striking up a partnership with the harmonica dynamo Junior Wells. His style is all nerve and volume, stinging single notes and sudden explosions, played by a man who never learned to keep it polite.
The honors have been piling up for decades: nine Grammys, the National Medal of Arts, a Lifetime Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honors and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2005. He has told his own story twice, in Damn Right I've Got the Blues, written with Donald Wilcock, and in the 2012 autobiography When I Left Home. Rhythm & Blues, his 2013 album, proves he's not coasting, and "I Go By Feel" is as good a motto as any for how he plays.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Buddy Guy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 74 Years Young | 1 | #9 | – | 2010 | |
| 2 | Feels Like Rain | 2 | #353 | – | – | |
| 3 | Mustang Sally | 1 | #64 | – | – | |
| 4 | Best Damn Fool | 1 | #631 | – | – | |
| 5 | Skin Deep | 1 | #634 | – | – | |
| 6 | I Go By Feel | 1 | #635 | – | – | |
| 7 | I Let My Guitar Do The Talking | 1 | #69 | – | 2022 | |
| 8 | Baby Please Don't Leave Me | 1 | #730 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 353 | Feels Like Rain | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs |
| 2022 | 69 | I Let My Guitar Do The Talking | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2022 |
| 2013 | 635 | I Go By Feel | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) |
| 2010 | 9 | 74 Years Young | WXRT Listener Poll: Top 25 Songs of 2010 |
| 2009 | 631 | Best Damn Fool | WYEP 913 Essential Songs |
| 2009 | 634 | Skin Deep | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade |
| 2009 | 730 | Baby Please Don't Leave Me | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade |
| 2006 | 213 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 2005 | 64 | Mustang Sally | WFPK Top 100 Party Songs |
| 2001 | 1957 | Feels Like Rain | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
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