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Buddy Guy (2007)

Buddy Guy (born July 30, 1936 in Lettsworth , Louisiana ) is an American blues musician and multiple Grammy award winner.

life and career

Guy started playing the guitar at the age of 13. He taught himself to play using a recording made by John Lee Hooker . Soon after, he performed with various bands around the city of Baton Rouge . After a short time he had acquired a larger repertoire, but was too shy to play it to anyone. After hearing him play, a friend from high school persuaded him to have a schoolboy whiskey . While drunk, he auditioned at a club and got a contract.

In 1957 he moved to Chicago . There he appeared in various clubs, including the 708 Club and the Blue Flame Club , where he prevailed in the competition against Otis Rush , Magic Sam and Junior Wells . First he played a few tracks under the supervision of Willie Dixon for a small record company and in 1960 he switched to Chess Records . There he recorded the pieces First Time I Met the Blues , Broken Hearted Blues and Ten Years Ago, among others .

His breakthrough came in 1964 with the album Folk Festival of the Blues . On this record he can be heard with musicians like Muddy Waters and Howlin 'Wolf . The recording Don't Know Which Way to Go was trend- setting . A year later he performed at the American Folk Blues Festival in Great Britain .

Guy (1998)

In 1967 Guy left Chess Records. He then recorded the two albums A Man and the Blues and Hold That Plane . Towards the end of the 1960s, the album Buddy and the Juniors was created in collaboration with Junior Wells and Junior Mance . This album showed the style Buddy Guy and Junior Wells would play in the years to come. In the 1970s, the two played a few more albums and separated in friendship at the end of the decade. Buddy Guy has his own club in Chicago, where he still performs ( Buddy Guy's Legends , S. Wabash, Chicago, Il 60605). He is the father of the rapper Shawnna .

On April 14, 2007, Buddy Guy discovered Quinn Sullivan, then eight, at a concert in New Bedford , Massachusetts . He decided to nurture the talent. Joint concert tours followed, culminating in Eric Clapton's 2013 Crossroads Guitar Festival and the Montreux Jazz Festival . On his Grammy- nominated album Skin Deep , he had Quinn play the solo part in Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes .

Guy was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. In 1990 a special electric guitar model dedicated to him, the Buddy Guy Fender Stratocaster, was released . In 2011, the Rolling Stone listed Guy 23rd of the 100 best guitarists of all time . In a list from 2003 he was ranked 30th.

Awards

Discography

  • 1955, with Otis Rush: The Final Takes (Flyright)
  • 1964: Original Blues Brothers (Blue Moon)
  • 1965: Crazy Music (Chess)
  • 1965: With The Blues (Chess)
  • 1966: It's My Life Baby (Vanguard)
  • 1966, with Junior Wells: Hoodoo Man Blues (Delmark)
  • 1966, with Junior Wells: On Tap (Delmark)
  • 1967: Electric Sleep (Delmark)
  • 1967: I Left My Blues in San Francisco (Chess)
  • 1967: South Side Jam (Delmark)
  • 1967: Blues Hit Big Town (Delmark)
  • 1968: Coming At You (Vanguard)
  • 1968: A Man And His Blues (Vanguard)
  • 1968: This Is Buddy Guy! (Live, on Vanguard)
  • 1968: I Left My Blues in San Francisco (Chess)
  • 1968: You're Tuff Enough (Blue Rock)
  • 1968: Sings At The Golden Bear (Blue Rock)
  • 1969: Hold That Plane! (Vanguard)
  • 1970: Buddy Guy, Junior Wells & Junior Mance: Buddy and the Juniors (Blue Thumb)
  • 1971: In the Beginning (1958–1964, on Drive)
  • 1971: In My Younger Days (Red Lightning)
  • 1972: Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play the Blues (Atlantic)
  • 1974: Drinkin 'TNT' n 'Smokin' Dynamite (Live, on Blind Pig)
  • 1977: Live in Montreux (Evidence)
  • 1979: Pleading the Blues (Evidence)
  • 1979: Got to Use Your Head (Blues Ball)
  • 1980: The Dollar Done Fell (JSP)
  • 1980: Ten Blue Fingers (JSP)
  • 1980: with Phil Guy: Buddy & Phil (JSP)
  • 1981: The Blues Giant (Isabel)
  • 1981: Stone Crazy! (Alligator)
  • 1981: DJ Play My Blues (JSP)
  • 1981: Breakin 'Out (JSP)
  • 1982: Phil Guy: Red Hot Blues (JSP)
  • 1983: Buddy Guy (Chess)
  • 1983: The Original Blues Brothers Live (Magnum)
  • 1983: Bad Luck Boy (JSP)
  • 1983: Phil Guy & Mojo Bufford: Tribute To Muddy Waters (Isabel)
  • 1984: It's A Real Mutha Fucka! (JSP)
  • 1987: Chess Masters (Chess)
  • 1987: A Man and the Blues (Vanguard)
  • 1988: Live at the Checkerboard Lounge (JSP)
  • 1989: I Ain't Got No Money (Flyright)
  • 1989: This is Buddy Guy Live (Vanguard)
  • 1990: I Was Walking Through the Woods (Chess)
  • 1990: Stone Crazy (Alligator)
  • 1990: Hold That Plane (Vanguard)
  • 1990: I Left My Blues in San Francisco (MCA)
  • 1991: Alone & Acoustic (Alligator)
  • 1991: Damn Right, I've Got the Blues (Silvertone, US: goldgold, UK: silversilver)
  • 1992: My Time After Awhile (Vanguard)
  • 1992: Live in Montreux (Evidence)
  • 1992: The Very Best of Buddy Guy (Rhino / Wea)
  • 1992: Drinkin 'TNT' n 'Smokin' Dynamite (Blind Pig)
  • 1992: Buddy and the Juniors (MCA)
  • 1993: Live At The Mystery Club (Quicksilver)
  • 1993: Feels Like Rain (Silvertone)
  • 1993: Junior Wells Featuring Buddy Guy - Pleading the Blues (Evidence)
  • 1994: Drinkin 'TNT' n 'Smokin' Dynamite (Sequel)
  • 1994: Slippin 'In (Silvertone)
  • 1994: Alone & Acoustic (Jive)
  • 1995: I Cry (Blues Masterworks)
  • 1996: Live: The Real Deal (Silvertone)
  • 1997: Try to Quit You Baby (Ronn)
  • 1998: As Good as It Gets (Vanguard)
  • 1998: Heavy Love (Silvertone)
  • 1998: with Junior Wells: Last Time Around - Live at Legends (Jive)
  • 1999: The Real Blues (Columbia River)
  • 2000: The Complete Vanguard Recordings (A Collection) (Vanguard)
  • 2000: Drinkin´ TNT `n´ Smokin` Dynamite (Red Lightnin ')
  • 2000: Buddy's Baddest - The Best of Buddy Guy (Jive / Silvertone)
  • 2001: Sweet Tea (Jive) Living Blues Award Best Album
  • 2001: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Buddy Guy (Chess)
  • 2002: Blue on Blues (Fuel 2000)
  • 2002: Everything Gonna Be Alright (Black & Blue)
  • 2003: Blues Singer (Silvertone)
  • 2003: Chicago Blues Festival 1964 (Live, on Stardust)
  • 2003: Buddy Guy's Discography (Jive)
  • 2004: Buddy Guy @ Carlos Santana presents "Blues at Montreux 2004" (Eagle-Rock)
  • 2005: Bring 'Em In (Jive) Living Blues Award Best Album 2005
  • 2007: Magic Slim And Guests - Buddy Guy's Chicago Legend: Live (Live DVD)
  • 2008: Skin Deep (Jive)
  • 2010: Living Proof ( Grammy 2011 Best Contemporary Blues Album; Blues Music Award 2011 Contemporary Blues Album of the Year)
  • 2013: Live at Legends (RCA / Silvertone)
  • 2013: Rhythm & Blues (RCA)
  • 2015: Born to Play Guitar (RCA)
  • 2018: The Blues is Alive and Well (RCA)

He can also be heard on numerous LPs as a session and guest musician - bootleg recordings, such as Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones: Sweet Home Chicago - Live at Buddy Guy's Checkerboard Lounge , Chicago 1981 ( Swingin 'Pig ), not counting .

Others

Buddy Guy appeared as a guest musician in the 2008 Rolling Stones concert film Shine a Light directed by Martin Scorsese .

In February 2012 he performed with Mick Jagger , BB King and other musicians at the White House .

literature

  • Buddy Guy (with David Ritz): When I Left Home. My story. Da Capo Press, Boston 2012, ISBN 978-0-306-81957-5 .
  • Donald E. Wilcock: Damn Right I've Got The Blues. Woodford Press, San Francisco 1993.

Web links

Commons : Buddy Guy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 18, 2015, accessed August 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time - David Fricke's Picks. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US UK
  4. ↑ washingtonpost.com
  5. ↑ youtube.com
  6. ^ Air Force One, Buddy Guy, Biggest Perks of Being President: Barack Obama
personal data
SURNAME Guy, buddy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Lettsworth , Louisiana , USA