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For those of you who don’t know the story behind Buddy’s polka dots – After Buddy’s mother Isabell suffered a stroke in the late 1950′s, he planned to stay in Baton Rouge to help take care of her, but his father encouraged him to follow his dreams to Chicago, knowing that Isabell would want the same thing.
Buddy agreed to go, but not before promising his mother that one day he’d make enough money to buy her a polka dot Cadillac. Buddy left for Chicago on September 25, 1957 and Isabell never had a chance to see him play before she passed away.
To this day, the polka dots remain a symbol of the promise Buddy made to his mother.
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Rick: The Polka Dot Hall of Fame call and wants to honor you for your guitars and years of service. How do you explain those dots in your acceptance speech?
Buddy Guy: I’m actually the oldest boy of five children, three boys and two girls. I was the oldest and I was the first kid to leave home. My mom always worried about if we were okay. I didn’t want her to feel like I was going to be stranded, but I was, but I wasn’t going to let her know. I told her to perk her up and feel better, that I was going to Chicago to land a job, buy her a polka dot Cadillac and come back and make her laugh and smile; a big, brand new polka-dot Cadillac, just to let her know how well I’d done. I forgot about that after she passed and gone, and didn’t think about a polka-dot guitar ’til some years later. She died in ’68 and I think the polka dot guitar is only about ten or twelve years old now, something like that.
Rick: The polka dots are in honor of your mom.
Buddy Guy: Yes. See, I never really wanted a polka-dot Cadillac; I made that up for her, so she wouldn’t worry about me. Anyway, I made that up for her and I wound up with a polka dot guitar instead. That’s the way life works sometimes.
