In his 89-and-counting years on this earth, legendary bluesman Buddy Guy has seen some things. Maybe not actual vampires, like the ones his character encounters in Ryan Coogler’s Oscar front-runner “Sinners,” but certainly some almost-supernatural beings: We have to ask him, what was it like to play with Jimi Hendrix?

“Can I correct what you said?,” he asks politely. “He was playing with me!”

Guy bursts into good-natured laughter, but he’s actually not kidding. He is part of the foundation of American blues, old enough to have played with Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, B.B. King, Little Walter and other legends, but he was younger than them, and his aggressive and noisy yet blues-steeped style was a towering influence on the entire generation of blues-rockers that came out of the 1960s, fro

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