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American blues guitarist and singer

Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy performing in 2008

Buddy Guy performing in 2008
Background information
Nascence name George Guy
Built-in (1936-07-thirty) July 30, 1936 (historic period 85)
Lettsworth, Louisiana, U.S.[1]
Genres Chicago blues, blues, electric blues, blues rock
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • songwriter
  • guitarist
Instruments Guitar, vocals
Years agile 1953–present
Labels RCA, Cobra, Chess, Delmark, Silvertone, MCA, Atlantic, MPS, Charly, Zomba Grouping, Jive, Vanguard, JSP, Rhino, Regal Pyramid, Flyright, AIM Recording, Alligator, Blues Ball Records
Associated acts Junior Wells, Phil Guy, Memphis Slim, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Boyd, Muddy Waters, Large Mama Thornton, Howlin' Wolf, Eric Clapton, B.B. Rex, Ike Turner, Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Colin James, Pete Townshend, Christone Ingram, John Mayer, Otis Rush, Jonny Lang, Quinn Sullivan, Marty Sammon, Darren Thiboutot Jr., The Damn Right Blues Band, Tom Hambridge
Website www.buddyguy.net

Musical creative person

George "Buddy" Guy (born July xxx, 1936)[ii] is an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He is an exponent of Chicago blues who has influenced generations of guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr. and John Mayer. In the 1960s, Guy played with Muddy Waters as a session guitarist at Chess Records and began a musical partnership with blues harp virtuoso Junior Wells.

Guy won eight Grammy Awards and Lifetime Accomplishment Award, National Medal of Arts, and Kennedy Centre Honors. Guy was ranked 23rd in Rolling Rock magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[3] His vocal "Stone Crazy" was ranked 78th in the Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time".[four] Clapton once described him every bit "the all-time guitar thespian alive".[5] In 1999, Guy wrote the book Damn Correct I've Got the Dejection, with Donald Wilcock.[six] His autobiography, When I Left Home: My Story, was published in 2012.[7]

Early on life [edit]

Guy at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1992

Guy was born and raised in Lettsworth, Louisiana.[1] His parents were sharecroppers and as a child, Guy would pick cotton for $2.50 per 100 pounds.[8] He began learning to play the guitar using a two-string diddley bow he made. Later he was given a Harmony acoustic guitar which, decades later in Guy's lengthy career, was donated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[ citation needed ]

Career [edit]

In the mid-1950s Guy began performing with bands in Baton Rouge, including with Big Papa Tilley and Raful Neal.[9] While living there, he worked as a custodian at Louisiana Country University.[one] In 1957, he recorded 2 demos for a local DJ in Baton Rouge for Ace Records, but they were non issued at the time.[10]

Presently after moving to Chicago on September 25, 1957,[ane] Guy fell under the influence of Dingy Waters. In 1958, a competition with Westward Side guitarists Magic Sam and Otis Blitz gave Guy a record contract. Presently subsequently he recorded for Cobra Records. During his Cobra sessions, he teamed upwardly with Ike Turner who helped him make his 2nd record, "You Sure Can't Do" / "This Is The End", past bankroll him on guitar and composing the latter.[eleven] [12] After two releases from Cobra's subsidiary, Artistic, Guy signed with Chess Records.[13]

Guy's early on career was impeded by his record company, Chess Records, his label from 1959 to 1968, which refused to record Guy playing in the novel style of his live shows. Leonard Chess, Chess Records founder, denounced Guy's playing as "just making noise".[14] In the early 1960s, Chess tried recording Guy every bit a solo creative person with R&B ballads, jazz instrumentals, soul and novelty trip the light fantastic toe tunes, just none of these recordings was released as a single. Guy's merely Chess album, I Left My Blues in San Francisco, was released in 1967. Most of the songs were influenced by the era's soul boom, with orchestrations by Gene Barge and Charlie Stepney. Chess used Guy mainly as a session guitarist to back Dirty Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Koko Taylor and others. Equally tardily as 1967, Guy worked as a tow truck driver while playing clubs at night.[8]

During his tenure with Chess, Guy recorded sessions with Junior Wells for Delmark Records under the pseudonym Friendly Chap in 1965 and 1966.[fifteen] In 1965, he participated in the European tour American Folk Blues Festival.[16]

He appeared onstage at the March 1969 "Supershow" in Staines, England, which also included Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Jack Bruce, Stephen Stills, Buddy Miles, Glenn Campbell, Roland Kirk, Jon Hiseman, and the Misunderstood. In 1972, he established The Checkerboard Lounge, with partner Fifty.C. Thurman.[17]

Guy's career was revived during the blues revival of the tardily 1980s and early 1990s. His resurgence was sparked by Clapton's request that Guy be part of the "24 Nights" all-star blues guitar lineup at London's Majestic Albert Hall.[17] Guy subsequently signed with Silvertone Records and recorded his mainstream breakthrough anthology Damn Right, I've Got the Dejection in 1991.

Guy had a small role in the 2009 law-breaking film In the Electric Mist every bit Sam "Hogman" Patin.[18]

As of 2019, Guy still performs at least 130 nights a year,[8] including a month of shows each January at his Chicago blues society, Buddy Guy's Legends.[nineteen] [20]

Artistry and legacy [edit]

Music mode [edit]

Guy in 1993, performing in Toronto, Canada

While Guy's music is often labelled Chicago dejection, his manner is unique and carve up. His music tin can vary from the most traditional, deepest dejection to a creative, unpredictable and radical gumbo of the blues, avant stone, soul and complimentary jazz that changes with each functioning.

As the New York Times music critic Jon Pareles noted in 2005,

Mr. Guy, 68, mingles anarchy, virtuosity, deep blues and hammy shtick in means that keep all optics on him.... [Guy] loves extremes: sudden drops from loud to soft, or a sweet, sustained guitar solo followed by a jolt of speed, or a high, imploring vocal cut off with a rasp.... Whether he's singing with gentle menace or bending new curves into a blue note, he is a master of tension and release, and his every wayward impulse was riveting.[21]

In an interview taped on April 14, 2000, for the Cleveland college station WRUW-FM, Guy said,

The purpose of me trying to play the kind of rocky stuff is to get airplay...I find myself kind of searching, hoping I'll hit the right notes, say the right things, maybe they'll put me on one of these big stations, what they call 'archetype'...if yous go Eric Clapton to play a Muddy Waters song, they call it archetype, and they will put it on that station, just you'll never hear Dirty Waters.[22]

Accolades [edit]

When inducting Guy into the Rock and Curl Hall of Fame, Eric Clapton said, "No affair how great the song, or performance, my ear would always find him out. He stood out in the mix, merely past virtue of the originality and vitality of his playing."[23]

Brook recalled the nighttime he and Vaughan performed with Guy at Buddy Guy's Legends club[24] in Chicago: "That was only the almost incredible stuff I ever heard in my life. The three of united states of america all jammed and it was so thrilling. That is as shut you can come up to the centre of the blues."

Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman said,

Guitar Legends do non come whatsoever better than Buddy Guy. He is feted by his peers and loved by his fans for his ability to make the guitar both talk and cry the blues. Such is Buddy'south mastery of the guitar that in that location is virtually no guitarist that he cannot imitate.[25]

Guy was a judge for the sixth and 8th almanac Contained Music Awards to support independent artists.[26]

Guy has influenced the styles of subsequent artists such as Reggie Sears and Jesse Marchant of JBM.[28]

On February 21, 2012, Guy performed in concert at the White House for President Barack Obama and Starting time Lady Michelle Obama. During the finale of the concert, he persuaded President Obama to sing a few bars of "Sweet Home Chicago".[29]

Awards [edit]

On September twenty, 1996, Guy was inducted into Guitar Eye'southward Hollywood Rockwalk.[30]

Guy has won eight Grammy Awards, for his work on electric and acoustic guitars and for contemporary and traditional forms of blues music, also every bit a Lifetime Achievement Laurels.[31]

In 2003, he was presented with the National Medal of Arts, awarded by the President of the United States to those who have made boggling contributions to the creation, growth and support of the arts in the The states.[32]

By 2004, Guy had as well earned 23 W.C. Handy Awards, Billboard magazine's Century Honor (he was its 2nd recipient) for distinguished artistic achievement, and the title of Greatest Living Electric Dejection Guitarist.

Guy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 14, 2005, by Eric Clapton and B.B. Male monarch. Clapton recalled seeing Guy perform in London's Marquee Club in 1965, impressing him with his technique, his looks and his charismatic showmanship. He remembered seeing Guy selection the guitar with his teeth and play it over his head—two tricks that later influenced Jimi Hendrix.[ commendation needed ] Guy's acceptance speech communication was curtailed: "If you don't think you accept the blues, just keep living." He had previously served on the nominating committee of the Stone and Roll Hall of Fame.

In 2008, Guy was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, performing at the Texas Club in Billy Rouge to commemorate the occasion.

In October 2009, he performed "Let Me Love Yous Babe" with Jeff Brook at the 25th anniversary concert at the Stone & Ringlet Hall of Fame.[33]

On Nov 15, 2010, he performed a live gear up for Guitar Center Sessions on DirecTV. The episode also included an interview with Guy by program host Nic Harcourt.[34]

On December 2, 2012, Guy was awarded the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors.[35] At his induction, Kennedy Centre chairman David Rubenstein said, "Buddy Guy is a titan of the blues and has been a tremendous influence on virtually everyone who has picked up an electric guitar in the last half century".[36] In a musical tribute to Guy, blues vocal powerhouse Beth Hart, accompanied by guitarist Jeff Beck, sang a rousing version of "I'd Rather Go Blind." [37] Also honored that night were actor Dustin Hoffman, surviving members of the stone band Led Zeppelin (John Paul Jones, Jimmy Folio and Robert Institute), comedian and late-night Television host David Letterman and prima ballerina and choreographer Natalia Makarova.[38]

On Jan 28, 2014, Guy was inducted into Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum.[39]

In 2015, Guy received a Grammy Lifetime Accomplishment Award from the National University of Recording Arts and Sciences.[40]

Built-in to Play Guitar won a Grammy Award in 2016 for All-time Blues Album.[41] [42] Also in 2016, Guy toured the United states of america eastward coast as the opening human activity for Jeff Brook.[43]

Dec viii, 2018 was designated "Buddy Guy Day" by Louisiana and Mississippi officials and a stretch of Highway 418 through Lettsworth was designated "Buddy Guy Way".[44]

In 2018, Guy was honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.[45]

In 2019, Guy received the Gilded Plate Award of the American University of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Jimmy Page.[46] [47]

Personal life [edit]

Buddy Guy was built-in every bit George Guy to Sam and Isabel Guy in Lettsworth, Louisiana. He was the offset of 5 children born to the couple. His blood brother Phil Guy was too a blues musician.

He married Joan Guy in 1959. They have 6 children together: Charlotte (1961), Carlise (1963), Colleen (1965), George Jr., Gregory, and Geoffrey.[48] Greg Guy also plays blues guitar.[49]

He was married to Jennifer Guy from 1975 to 2002.[48] They take 2 children together: Rashawnna and Michael.[48] The marriage ended in divorce. Rashawnna Guy, known past her stage proper noun Shawnna, is a rapper.

Guy lived in Orland Park, Illinois, a suburb south of Chicago every bit of 2014[update].[8]

Discography [edit]

  • I Left My Blues in San Francisco (1967)
  • A Man and the Dejection (1968)
  • Hold That Plane! (1972)
  • The Blues Giant / Stone Crazy! (1979)
  • Breaking Out (1980)
  • DJ Play My Blues (1982)
  • Damn Correct, I've Got the Dejection (1991)
  • Feels Like Rain (1993)
  • Slippin' In (1994)
  • Heavy Love (1998)
  • Sweet Tea (2001)
  • Dejection Vocalizer (2003)
  • Bring 'Em In (2005)
  • Skin Deep (2008)
  • Living Proof (2010)
  • Rhythm & Blues (2013)
  • Built-in to Play Guitar (2015)
  • The Dejection Is Live and Well (2018)

with Junior Wells [edit]

  • Hoodoo Man Dejection (1965)
  • Chicago / The Blues / Today!, Vol. one (1966)
  • It's My Life, Baby! (1966)
  • Coming at You lot (1968)
  • Buddy and the Juniors (1970, also with Junior Mance)
  • Southside Blues Jam (1970)
  • Play the Blues (1972)
  • Pleading the Blues (1979)
  • Going Back (1981)
  • Alone & Acoustic (1991)
  • Better Off with the Blues (1993)

with Phil Guy [edit]

  • Buddy & Phil (1981)
  • The Crimson Hot Dejection of Phil Guy (1982)
  • Bad Luck Boy (1983)
  • All Star Chicago Dejection Session (1994)
  • He'south My Dejection Blood brother (2006)

with Memphis Slim [edit]

  • Southside Reunion (1971)

See also [edit]

  • Buddy Guy's Legends
  • Checkerboard Lounge
  • Chicago Dejection Festival
  • Montreux Jazz Festival

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External links [edit]

  • Official website [ permanent expressionless link ]
  • Buddy Guy discography at Discogs Edit this at Wikidata
  • Buddy Guy at AllMusic
  • Buddy Guy at Curlie
  • Buddy Guy at IMDb
  • Harcourt, Nic. "Buddy Guy at Guitar Heart". Archived from the original on 2021-11-04.

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