In June 2006, legendary bluesman Buddy Guy talked with assistant editor Lauren Gitlin about his daughter, Shawnna, a woman some liken to the next Foxy Brown. What follows are selections from the conversation, in which Guy remembers the first time he saw his daughter perform.

Listen to a Shawnna playlist.

BY BUDDY GUY, AS TOLD TO LAUREN GITLIN

Anything you do in life is a problem. You can go to school and come out as a doctor and still have nowhere to go perform surgery.

Music is about the same way. Some of the best musicians in the world never make it. I didn't want [Shawnna] to go through what I went through. A lot of musicians don't live long. They go to the bottle or to drugs cause things don't work right. I just wanted to school her in the facts of what I'd learned from the great Muddy Waters and all those blues guys -- how record companies and managers rip you off, you can't just walk in and perform.

When she was first comin' up, she didn't want to let me hear her rap or sing cause she was using language that she thought I was gonna dislike. But I know what time it is. I got nothing to say about it. She's grown, she does what she wants. So I'm with her one hundred percent.

But she really doesn't want me to hear [her music]. Every time I get ready to go and catch one of her shows, she would tell me, "Daddy you don't want to go there. It's too rowdy. They fight and do everything." I finally sneaked in on her at the House of Blues in Chicago a couple years ago. She was on the show with Ludacris and someone slipped and told her I was there. And the first thing she said was, "My muthafuckin' dad is in the house!"

The other day I was in the barber shop getting my hair cut and this lady who worked there introduced me to the guy who owned the building and said, "This is a famous musician."

"What'd he play?"

"Blues."

"Well, my grandmamma would probably know who he is."

I said, "You probably know who my daughter is. She did a song with Ludacris."

And he goes, "You aren't talking about Shawnna, are you?"

Listen to a Shawnna playlist.

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