BUDDY GUY TODAY RELEASES “NINE BELOW ZERO

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BUDDY GUY TODAY RELEASES “NINE BELOW ZERO,”
THE FIRST TRACK REVEALED FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM
 THE BLUES IS ALIVE AND WELL OUT EVERYWHERE JUNE 15, 2018

 [New York, NY – May 23, 2018] Today, seven-time Grammy Award winning blues icon Buddy Guy reveals his version of “Nine Below Zero,” the Sonny Boy Williamson penned-classic and the first song released from this forthcoming album THE BLUES IS ALIVE AND WELL, with a street date of June 15 on Silvertone/RCA Records. The track “Nine Below Zero” premiered on B.B. King’s Bluesville channel on SiriusXM.  

THE BLUES IS ALIVE AND WELL is Buddy Guy’s follow up to his 2015 album Born To Play Guitar, which won “Best Blues Album” at the 2016 Grammy Awards, debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top Blues Album charts and marked Guy’s fifth #1 album on the chart and twelfth Top 10 Billboard Blues album.

THE BLUES IS ALIVE AND WELL features guest appearances by Mick Jagger on “You Did The Crime,” Keith Richards & Jeff Beck on “Cognac,” and James Bay on “Blue No More.” Grammy Award winning producer/songwriter and longtime collaborator Tom Hambridge produced the album.

In his quest to keep the genre vital, Guy chats about the origin of southern blues and performs on David Letterman’s Netflix series, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, which began airing on May 4^th.

The Blues Is Alive And Well track list:

01 A Few Good Years                                                                      
02 Guilty As Charged                                                                       
03 Cognac (featuring Jeff Beck & Keith Richards)                           
04 The Blues Is Alive And Well                                                        
05 Bad Day                                                                                       
06 Blue No More (featuring James Bay)                                          
07 Whiskey For Sale                                                                        
08 You Did The Crime (featuring Mick Jagger)                                
09 Old Fashioned                                                                            
10 When My Day Comes                                                                 
11 Nine Below Zero                                                                         
12 Ooh Daddy                                                                                  
13 Somebody Up There                                                                   
14 End Of The Line                

NINE BELOW ZERO CREDITS
(Sonny Boy Williamson)
Published by ARC Music (BMI)
Buddy Guy - BG Blonde Stratocaster, Vocals
Tom Hambridge - Drums
Rob Mcnelley - Rhythm Guitar
Kevin Mckendree - Upright Piano
Willie Weeks - Bass

The recipient of the 2015 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Buddy Guy’s incredible career spans over 50 years with just as many albums released. Career highlights include 7 Grammy Awards, 37 Blues Music Awards, Kennedy Center Honors, NARM Chairman’s Award for Sustained Creative Achievement, Billboard Music Awards' Century Award for distinguished artistic development, Presidential National Medal of Arts, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to name a few.

At 81 years young, Guy proves that it gets greater later as he continues to record and tour around the world with recent performances at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater and more.

Buy/Stream “Nine Below Zero”:
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