Chicago’s 77-year-old, polka-dotted, fast-fingered survivor has spent roughly the past year simultaneously looking back and moving forward. His 2012 autobiography “When I Left Home” begins with a 9-year-old picking cotton in Lettswerth, La., and ends with the owner of Buddy Guy’s Legends getting up at first light to tend to his 14 suburban Chicago acres. His latest album, last year’s cranked-up “Rhythm & Blues,” includes duets with younger stars such as Kid Rock (on Buddy’s late friend Junior Wells’ standard “Messin’ with the Kid”) and Keith Urban, yet the first song “Best In Town” is a biography: “When I first heard Muddy Waters/I knew I was Chicago-bound.” Guy has been telling his story in Chicago since he moved here from Louisiana in the late ’50s, and continues at Legends every weekend this month.
Where: Buddy Guy’s Legends, 700 S. Wabash
When: 9 p.m. Friday [JAN. 3] and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 9-12, Jan. 16-19, Jan. 21-26 and Jan. 30-31
Tickets
: $55-65; 312-427-1190 or
