Chicago blues legend Buddy Guy works hard, but he used to work a lot harder, so it's cool

CHICAGO - Buddy Guy is 83, and the number of blues shows he's headlining this month at his South Loop club, Legends, is 16. That's a lot, right?

"Well, I was born on a farm," says the singer and guitarist who famously journeyed by train from his home in Lettsworth, La., to Chicago in 1957. "Every time I think I'm overworked, I think about the mule and the plow. We had to work from sunup to sundown. So that keeps me going."

Guy's work ethic has kept