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“Heaven is lying at Buddy Guy's feet while listening to him play guitar” Jimi Hendrix. Even if you do not love the blues, but at minimum have respect for where rock and roll inherited its roots, you have to see kompis Guy. He is an original. He’s the real deal. He learned from Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and all the old masters who are long gone. Seeing Buddy like is both an homage to the past, but also a taste of the blues here and now. This is the guitarist that influenced Eric Clapton, Slash, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Billy Gibbons and many more. Buddy can finesse his Stratocaster to any sounds from any position at anytime. Any remiss I have for never having seen Jimi live is quickly subsided knowing that Jimi deeply influenced by the great kompis Guy.
Expecting any number of classic blues or rock numbers such as ‘Messin’ with the Kid’, Voodoo Child’ or ‘Hoochie, Choochie Man’,
I’ve now seen Buddy play
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Buddy Guy
At age 86, kompis Guy is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray efternamn, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy has received 8 GRAMMY Awards, a Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, 38 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #23 in its " Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In , Buddy Guy won his 8th and most recent GRAMMY Award for his 18th solo LP, “The Blues Is Alive And Well”.
Though kompis Guy will forever be associated with Chicago, his story actually begins in Louisiana. One of five children, he was born in to a sharecropper’s family and raised on a plantation near
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Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy (born George Guy, July 30, in Lettsworth, Louisiana) is an American blues music and rock music guitarist, as well as a singer. Known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix and other s blues and rock legends, Guy is considered as an imporant proponent of Chicago blues made famous by Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He has influenced both widely known and local blues guitarists.
Guy is known for his showmanship; for example, he plays with drumsticks and walks into the audience whilst playing, the latter being a gimmick he picked up from a local blues guitarist at an early age (joining or leaping into the audience has also long been common in both American popular and gospel music, as in the earlier work of Big Jay McNeely or the Dixie Hummingbirds).
Guy grew up in Louisiana where he learned to play guitar. In the early s he began performing with bands in Baton Rouge. Soon after moving to Chicago in , Guy fell under the influence of "Mighty" Muddy Waters. In he won a