Buddy Guy buys $1 million BR home, planning homecoming move

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If you weren't able to catch blues legend Buddy Guy in concert at L'Auberge in March, chances are you'll have another chance to see him in the area in the future, as the guitarist and Lettsworth native is finally making the move back home to the Capital Region. Guy, who moved to Chicago in 1957 and has called the city home ever since, purchased a home in the Nicholson Drive/River Road area last week for a little over $1 million. "We've been home shopping for about a year," says Tigue Bonneval of Beau Box Commercial Real Estate, who brokered the deal. "Basically, I think he just wants to get back home." Bonneval says that Guy will keep his house in Chicago, but the Baton Rouge house will be his permanent home. "He's still going to have Buddy Guy's Legends, which is a big club in Chicago, but he's pretty much transitioning into the home here in Baton Rouge as his primary residence," Bonneval says. "He's playing in New Orleans in three days at the House of Blues. I'm sure he'll do much more here now." Bonneval says the move will take place gradually, as Guy is currently on tour. "It was pretty exciting hanging out with him, hearing stories about Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones while we'd ride around looking at properties," Bonneval says of his house-hunting experience with Guy. "It was a pretty unique experience." In March 2013 225 featured Guy on its cover in honor of his March 16 homecoming show at the Manship Theatre. Between songs at the show, Guy talked a lot about his Louisiana roots and connections to Baton Rouge, noting at one point that he has long thought about opening a blues club in the city.

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