In April, legendary blues guitarist Buddy Guy was planning to make a bittersweet trip to Nevada to visit his old friend B.B. King, who was battling Father Time and the debilitating effects of diabetes before his death in May. It would have been, no doubt, a chance to reminisce about the old days and to talk and think about where the music both men love is headed. Buddy Guy thinks a lot about the Blues. It’s his lifeblood and his life’s work. From the time when he was a little

MEMPHIS — It was for years an open secret that behind the blues music, barbecue trophies and neon signs of Beale Street, the small strip of clubs, restaurants and history that helped put Memphis on the map, a legal and political mess existed that tourists never saw. These days the lawsuits, management fights and turf wars have ebbed, but a long-term reckoning for one of the country’s most famous entertainment districts is only in its infancy. “The turmoil that existed on the