Upon his arrival, however, Finley accommodated the army band's need for a guitarist and bandleader by traveling with the group throughout Europe until he was discharged.

In 2015, Music Maker Relief Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports aging blues musicians, discovered Finley busking before a gig in Arkansas.

With their help, Finley made a musical comeback, featuring him in packaged tours with acts including Robert Lee Coleman and Alabama Slim.

[4][5] Finley released his first album, Age Don't Mean a Thing, on September 30, 2016, on Big Legal Mess Records.

[6] With production credits from Watson and Jimbo Mathus, Finley traveled to Memphis to record the album with members of the Bo-Keys.

He penned all but two of the tracks, highlighted by an autobiographical title song, on Age Don't Mean a Thing, evoking influences from Booker T. and the MGs, James Brown, and B.

Continuing the collaboration with Auerbach's label, the album features the return of prior collaborators from Sharecropper's Son Kenny Brown, bass guitarist Eric Deaton, with the addition of drummers Patrick Carney (of The Black Keys) and Jeffery Clemens (of G.Love & Special Sauce).