Buddy Guy

Recipient of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors. Other recipient that year were Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman, Natalia Makarova, and the rock band Led Zeppelin, comprising John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant.

[on persuading President Barack Obama to perform the blues] I'd have a double dose of blues if I had to remember all the names [he has to]. Somebody whispered that if you sing "Sweet Home Chicago" he may come up and sing a verse. I was fit to go on the table if he didn't do it 'cause everybody'd be saying, :Hey man, you done made some kind of remark at the Commander in Chief".