Heineken blues

[Osprey]

This commercial has been kicking around for a while. A young man comes across an old blues street musician playing an acoustic guitar. The young man rewards the singer with a bottle of beer. Can anyone identify the singer and the song?

 

[michelle]

Could it be B.B. King?

 

[Osprey]

Thanks for the reply. It isn't B.B. King. I'm a blues fan and I know this guy from somewhere. Thought for a while that it was Robert Lockwood, but Lockwood is older.
By the way, the ad is entitled "Street Singer," the agency is Publicis and it first aired in December 2003. I found all this out since my first post.

 

[michelle]

Does Publicis have the ad on their site (if they have one) to watch? Have you tried contacting them? I looked back through our archives and don't see anything...