Spent the evening with Buddy Guy!

+1  on both counts! Buddy is always great and Jonny has lost whatever he had.

Who doesn't smile when they're around Buddy? Sorry to hear about Jonny. I had high hopes for him in the early years. I'm glad he's sober and has embraced his Faith, but I do feel his music has changed, and not for the better.  Shame he didn't have Quinn open.

I agree with Deezer here. In fact, quite honestly, while I loved Buddy at both the 2007 and 2010 Crossroads festivals, the two times I've seen him with his band - once in 2007 and in 2011 - I was at least mildly disappointed for different reasons. At the 2007 show he played a very short set - I think maybe an hour. It was a really hot, muggy evening and an outdoor gig so I gave him the benefit of the doubt. 2011 was at a festival with Buddy as the headliner and he had his own soundboard/crew and they had serious sound problems that required Buddy to literally stop the show after about 15-20 minutes to get it sorted and that took quite a while. In the end we only got about 3 or 4 songs from Buddy.  On the other hand, I've seen Jonny about 4 times in the same time frame - last was back in 2010 - and I was never disappointed in the least.

Maybe Jonny just had a bad night- Like I said, it wasn't just us, the buzz in the lobby during intermission was the same, lots of disappointment - I was excited to see Jonny, I had never seen him before - His singing, well, you couldn't understand anything he was singing, almost like he was singing too hard, or trying to be very raspy, and he did a LOT of falsetto type singing, which was WAYYYYY off key most times - He came out with a Les Paul, which I thought was pretty cool - tone was decent - He had a couple small amps up there, but I didn't get close enough to see what they were. Does anyone know what he uses off the top of their head?

I wasn't trying to piss all over Jonny, or his fans, just stating our experience - His band was cool though - my favorite part of his set was the part where he and his guitar player traded licks for a while, and his drummer was badass!!! Probably the roughest part, other than the falsetto singing, was that he drug his songs out way too long and it seemed like whatever he was trying to do got lost in the translation so to speak

He's got a few Fender amps. For larger gigs head and speakers; smaller venues usually smaller Fenderrs. And maybe it was an off night - he HAS had vocal problems in the past