Henry Butler `grateful' for his life and music

Henry Butler 10 p.m. Saturday

Buddy Guy's Legends, 754 S. Wabash Cover, $10 (312) 427-1190 Some people would consider blindness a curse. For Henry Butler,what he once begrudgingly thought of as "a blessing in disguise" henow considers an asset to his musical career and self-actualization.

"I am very grateful for the life that I live," says the49-year-old New Orleans native. "I now recognize all the benefitsthat I've had from not realizing physical sight. I've learned andstill am learning to be a great listener. It's certainly beenteaching me how to observe, how to pay attention to what I'm hearing,within and without. And it makes me know that I'm going to …