If you missed Rolling Stone's most recent interview of Buddy Guy, you will want to correct that oversight. It slipped by me, to turn up on Avantgo's Rolling Stone channel on my PDA. Thanks, AG! The man Eric Clapton considers the greatest living guitarist was fit as a fiddle and ready to talk. Guy is expansive about the legacy of blues music he is part of, and, how the Guy family legacy will be carried on.

At sixty-seven, Guy remains an electrifying performer, as liable to summon up the sound of Jimi Hendrix as that of the blues greats he grew up on, such as B.B. King or Guitar Slim. Next up: He plans to release sixteen live double CDs from a month long residency at Legends, his own Chi-town club. "My kids didn't know who I was till they turned twenty-one and saw me in that club," says Guy. "Then they said, 'My God, Dad, I didn't know you could do that!' "

Do you remember the first music you ever heard?

Church music out in the country in Louisiana. We didn't have keyboards or anything, so you'd just have to put voices together. Later on, my dad got one of those wind-up toys, a phonograph. Then we heard Arthur Crudup and Lonnie Johnson and Lightnin' Hopkins.

Later in life you met Crudup, Johnson and Hopkins. What was that like?

I never felt I was good enough to shake hands with those guys. I met Lonnie Johnson onstage in Toronto in 1968. I just about fell out! I was so shocked I couldn't turn his hand a-loose. He had to shake it loose. But looking back on it, I must've played something right for those guys to say hi to me.

How do you rate yourself among the guitar greats?

There's no comparison. It's like stacking up a boxer of today against Ali, Louis or Marciano. I got a chance to see and play with guys like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King — those shoes will never be filled. They had something. If you were interviewing Muddy or Wolf, you'd be tapping your feet — because they talk the music. I don't have that.

As is typical of him, Guy is humble about his talent and more likely to direct depracatory remarks at himself than to tout his achievements. However, he does exercise bragging rights in the interview — about his baby girl.

Do you ever watch MTV?

Yeah — my youngest daughter, Shawnna, is in a video with Ludacris and one with Mariah Carey. Her face is more famous than mine! She's got a CD out this year.

Would you like to know what instrument Guy can't play, but he wishes he could? Read the full interview and find out.

I happened to read the Rolling Stone interview of Guy while sitting under the dryer at the hairdresser. I must have been grinning like an idiot because a couple folks asked me what I found so entertaining. If you have seen Buddy Guy perform, you know he infuses an audience with goodwill. Even in print, the blues man will make you happy.

Note 1: Learn more about Rashawwna Guy here.

Note 2: This entry also appeared at Silver Rights.