Buddy Guy

Buddy Guy (born George Guy, July 30, 1936 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 1960s blues and rock legends, Guy is considered as an imporant exponent 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 ...

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• Buddy Guy - Biography
• Buddy Guy - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Buddy Guy - Influence
• Buddy Guy - Music
• Buddy Guy - Entertainer
• Buddy Guy - Awards
• Buddy Guy - Blues Caretaker
• Buddy Guy - Magazine articles
• Buddy Guy - News articles

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Buddy Guy - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Guy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 14, 2005 by Eric Clapton and B.B. King. Clapton recalled in 1965, seeing Guy perform in London’s The Marquee Club and was impressed by Guy’s playing, his looks, his star power. He remembered seeing Guy pick the guitar with his teeth and play it over his head – two tricks that later influenced Jimi Hendrix. Seeing Guy’s power trio perform also gave him the idea for a power trio format Clapton later used in his rock band Cream). Guy’s acceptance speech was concise: “If you don’t think y ...

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Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy - Biography, Buddy Guy - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Buddy Guy - Influence, Buddy Guy - Music, Buddy Guy - Entertainer, Buddy Guy - Awards, Buddy Guy - Blues Caretaker, Buddy Guy - Magazine articles, Buddy Guy - News articles

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Charlie Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944 in Kosciusko, Mississippi) is an American blues harp (harmonica) player and bandleader, one of the non-African-American bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield. Though he has often been identified as a "white bluesman," he claims Native American heritage. Musselwhite was born in the rural hill country of Mississippi. He has said that he is of Choctaw descent, and he was born in a region originally inhabited by the Choctaw. However, in a 2005 interview, he said his mother had to ...

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The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by adding electricity, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes saxophone to the basic string/harmonica Delta blues. The music developed mainly as a result of the "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial cities of the North, and Chicago in particular, in the first half of the twentieth century. Chicago blues musicians include: Big Maceo Merriweather Big Walter Horton Billy Boy Arnold

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Willie Dixon (July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992) was a well-known American blues bassist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was born as William James Dixon in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He was a producer for Chess and Checker Records in Chicago, Illinois and is considered one of the key figures in the creation of Chicago blues. He worked with Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Eddie Boyd, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lo ...

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• Willie Dixon - Songs

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Austin City Limits is a music program on American television. Although primarily known for featuring country music, performers from folk, jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and roll and other genres have appeared on the program. The show is a staple of PBS television stations. Since the show first aired in 1976, it has featured hundreds of different artists. Austin City Limits is American television's longest-running program featuring concert music. As of today, the show has been occasionally shown every Saturday at 12:01 a.m. Pacific/Eastern Time and at 11:00 p.m. Central since the deb ...

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• Austin City Limits - Partial list of musicians who have appeared on Austin City Limits

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The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. The form evolved in the United States in the communities of former African slaves from spirituals, praise songs, field hollers, shouts, and chants. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of the blues' West African pedigree. The blues has been a major influence on later American and Western popular music, finding expression in ragtime, jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, hip-hop, and count ...

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• Blues - Characteristics
• Blues - Origins
• Blues - Lyrics
• Blues - Musical style
• Blues - History
• Blues - Origins
• Blues - Prewar blues
• Blues - Early postwar blues
• Blues - Blues in the '60s and '70s
• Blues - Blues from the 1980s to the present
• Blues - Musical impact
• Blues - Social impact
• Blues - Notes

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McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913–April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the father of Chicago blues." Muddy Waters - Early years. Born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, Morganfield moved to Clarksdale, Mississippi at the age of three, when his mother died. Waters was subsequently raised by his grandmother. Waters was first recorded on a Mississippi Delta plantation by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941. Lomax had ...

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• Muddy Waters - Early years
• Muddy Waters - Recording career begins
• Muddy Waters - Later times
• Muddy Waters - Influence
• Muddy Waters - Bibliography

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A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarist - Noted guitarists. Guitarist - Classical. François Campion (ca 1688-1748) Antoine Carré Francisco Corbetta (ca 1620-1681) Nicolas Desrosiers Giovanni Paolo Foscarini Henri Grenerin Giovanni Battista Granata Francisco Guerau Louis Jourdan de La Salle Girolamo Montesardo Santiago de Murcia Gaspard Sanz ( ...

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• Guitarist - Noted guitarists
• Guitarist - Classical
• Guitarist - Latin-American music
• Guitarist - Flamenco
• Guitarist - Jazz
• Guitarist - Folk and acoustic
• Guitarist - Blues
• Guitarist - Rock/pop
• Guitarist - Metal

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After playing in a series of bands, Dallas-native Vaughan formed the blues rock combo Double Trouble with drummer Chris Layton and bassist Jackie Newhouse in the late 1970s. Tommy Shannon replaced Newhouse in 1981. A popular local draw, Vaughan soon attracted attention from David Bowie and Jackson Browne, and he played on albums with both. Bowie first caught Vaughan at the Montreux Jazz Festival where initially a few members of the audience, who disliked his hard blues sound, booed Vaughan, though most of the crowd cheered him, as can ...

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Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan - Life and career, Stevie Ray Vaughan - Posthumous Recognition, Stevie Ray Vaughan - Equipment, Stevie Ray Vaughan - Discography, Stevie Ray Vaughan - Albums, Stevie Ray Vaughan - Compilations, Stevie Ray Vaughan - Bootlegs, Stevie Ray Vaughan - See Also

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List of blues musicians - Blues in conventional pop music. Harold Arlen, "Blues in the Night" and "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime" DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson, "Birth of the Blues" Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, "I've Got It Bad And That Ain't Good" George Gershwin, (1898-1937), "Porgy and Bess" List of blues musicians - Blues in country music. Johnny Cash, (1932-2003) Merle Haggard, (1937) Jerry Lee Lewis (1 ...

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List of blues musicians, List of blues musicians - Early country blues, List of blues musicians - Early Urban Blues, List of blues musicians - Pre-World War II jazz blues, List of blues musicians - Postwar jazz blues, List of blues musicians - Kansas City blues, List of blues musicians - Later styles, List of blues musicians - Chicago/Detroit Blues, List of blues musicians - Modern blues post 1950s, List of blues musicians - Blues in late 1960s rock music, List of blues musicians - Blues since 1990, List of blues musicians - Blues in conventional pop music, List of blues musicians - Blues in country music, List of blues musicians - Blues influence in classical music, List of blues musicians - Blues in contemporary rock and pop music, List of blues musicians - Blues from Europe, List of blues musicians - Blues from Latin America

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Austin City Limits Music Festival - Lineup. Coldplay, Widespread Panic, Oasis, The Black Crowes, The Allman Brothers Band, Wilco, Roky Erickson & The Explosives, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Lyle Lovett & His Large Band, John Prine, Lucinda Williams, Buddy Guy, Jet, Dierks Bentley, Thievery Corporation, The Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, Bob Mould Band, Built to Spill, Bloc Party, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Blues T ...

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Austin City Limits Music Festival, Austin City Limits Music Festival - 2005, Austin City Limits Music Festival - Lineup, Austin City Limits Music Festival - 2004, Austin City Limits Music Festival - Lineup, Austin City Limits Music Festival - Lineup

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When the Allman Brothers Band reformed in 1989 in response to the popularity of the Dreams box set, Warren Haynes was added on lead guitar and Allen Woody was added on bass. The two shared a love for 60s power trios, like Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience, and James Gang. With no bands making similar music in the 90s, Haynes, Woody, and former Dickey Betts drummer Matt Abts came together as Gov't Mule during Allman Brothers' breaks. They released their debut CD Gov't Mule in 1995. It was followe ...

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Gov't Mule, Gov't Mule - History, Gov't Mule - Discography, Gov't Mule - Members, Gov't Mule - Contributors to the Group, Gov't Mule - External links

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Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Mayer grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut and attended Fairfield Warde High School for his freshman, sophomore, and senior years. He attended Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk, Connecticut for his junior year, where he was enrolled in the Center for Global Studies Abroad (Then known as the Center for Japanese Studies Abroad), a magnet program for students in Fairfield County wanting to learn Japanese. Mayer listened to pop music, but it was not until the age of thirteen that his inspiration for playin ...

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John Mayer musician, John Mayer musician - Early life, John Mayer musician - Mainstream Success, John Mayer musician - Change in Musical Direction, John Mayer musician - Discography, John Mayer musician - Albums, John Mayer musician - Singles, John Mayer musician - Guest contributions

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Eric Clapton - Clapton's Early Years. Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, UK, as the illegitimate son of 16 year old Patricia Molly Clapton and Edward Walter Fryer - a 24 year old Canadian pilot. Fryer returned to his wife in Canada before Clapton was born. Young Clapton grew up with his grandparents, believing they were his parents, and that his mother was his older sister. Years later his mother married another Canadian soldier, moved to Canada and left Eric with his grandparents. When Clapton was 9 years old he discovered this fami ...

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Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton - Musical Career & Personal Life, Eric Clapton - Clapton's Early Years, Eric Clapton - The Yardbirds & John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Eric Clapton - Cream, Eric Clapton - Blind Faith & Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Eric Clapton - Derek & the Dominos, Eric Clapton - Full Throttle Solo Career, Eric Clapton - Controversy and tragedy, Eric Clapton - Slowhand Re-Emerging, Eric Clapton - Eric's Axes, Eric Clapton - Discographies, Eric Clapton - Band, Eric Clapton - Current Band, Eric Clapton - Previous Band Members, Eric Clapton - Trivia, Eric Clapton - Quotations

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Main article: Chicago blues Chicago blues music was developed as black musicians influenced by Delta blues joined the post-World War II migration to the burgeoning industrial city from the deep south, and, seeking a way to be heard in the raucous clubs, turned to electric guitar and other forms of amplified music. The result was a tough, gritty sound that directly led to the creation of rock and roll. As the style developed, artists and added more instruments and diversification of styles. Key early Chicago blues artists includ ...

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Music of Illinois, Music of Illinois - Blues, Music of Illinois - Jazz, Music of Illinois - Electronic music, Music of Illinois - Classical music, Music of Illinois - Country music, Music of Illinois - Folk music, Music of Illinois - Sunshine Pop, Music of Illinois - Rock, Music of Illinois - Punk rock, Music of Illinois - Alternative rock, Music of Illinois - Hip hop, Music of Illinois - External link

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Burnside spent most of his life in the rural hill country of northern Mississippi, working as a sharecropper and a commercial fisherman, as well as playing guitar at weekend house parties. He was first inspired to pick up the guitar in his early twenties, after hearing the 1948 John Lee Hooker single "Boogie Chillen" (which inspired numerous other rural bluesmen, among them Buddy Guy, to start playing). He learned music largely from Mississippi Fred McDowell, who lived nearby in an adjoining county. He also cited his c ...

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R. L. Burnside, R. L. Burnside - Biography, R. L. Burnside - Style, R. L. Burnside - Selected albums, R. L. Burnside - Films

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The Gypsy Sun and Rainbows band was short-lived, and Hendrix formed a new trio, the Band of Gypsys. Practising in upstate New York and at Juggy's sound studio, Band of Gypsys comprised Billy Cox, an old paratrooper buddy, on bass and Buddy Miles on drums. A press conference 15 December 1969 and concert in Harlem in front of mainly a black audience paid tribute to civil rights and had a focus on Dr Martin Luther King. Four memorable concerts on New Year's Eve 1969-70 at Bill Graham's New York Fillmore East auditorium captured several outstand ...

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Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Youth and pre-professional career, Jimi Hendrix - 1965-1966, Jimi Hendrix - 1967, Jimi Hendrix - 1968, Jimi Hendrix - 1969, Jimi Hendrix - 1970, Jimi Hendrix - Legacy, Jimi Hendrix - Posthumous releases, Jimi Hendrix - Citations, Jimi Hendrix - Musical equipment, Jimi Hendrix - Guitars, Jimi Hendrix - Amplifiers, Jimi Hendrix - Effect Pedals, Jimi Hendrix - Discography, Jimi Hendrix - Studio albums, Jimi Hendrix - Live albums, Jimi Hendrix - Selected Live albums released after Hendrix's death, Jimi Hendrix - Selected Compilations, Jimi Hendrix - Biographies

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Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Performers, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1986, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1987, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1988, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1989, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1990, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1991, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1992, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1993, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1994, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1995, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1996, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1997, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1998, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1999, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 2000, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 2001, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 2002, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 2003, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 2004, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 2005, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 2006, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Early Influences, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Lifetime Achievement, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Non-performers, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Sidemen, Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Multiple inductees

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In 1959-1967, the Stratocaster was refitted with a rosewood fretboard, as well as color choices other than sunburst, including a variety of colorful car-like paint jobs that appealed to the nascent surfer and hot-rod culture, pioneered by such bands as the Ventures and the Beach Boys. Dick Dale, the godfather of surf-rock, was a prominent Stratocaster player who also collaborated with Leo Fender in developing the Fender Showman amplifier. In the early 60's, the instrument was also championed by Hank Marvin - guitarist of the Shadows, a band ...

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Fender Stratocaster, Fender Stratocaster - Origins, Fender Stratocaster - Sound and playability, Fender Stratocaster - Design and popularity changes, Fender Stratocaster - Current models, Fender Stratocaster - Trivia

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