Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy
Person from United States
Genres: blues, blues rock, chicago blues, electric blues, rock music, Chicago Blues, guitar, classic rock
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About 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 important 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 1950s he began performing with bands in Baton Rouge. Soon after moving to Chicago in 1957, Guy fell under the influence of "Mighty" Muddy Waters. In 1958 he won a record contract with Artistic Records after beating the West Side guitarists Magic Sam and Otis Rush in a "Head Cutting Contest" at the Blue Flame Club. Soon afterwards he recorded for the Cobra label. In the early 1960s, Guy was a session guitarist for Chess Records. He recorded on Junior Wells sessions for Delmark Records under the pseudonym Friendly Chap in 1965 and 1966. His career took off during a blues revival period in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was sparked by Eric Clapton's request that Guy be part of the '24 nights' all-star blues guitar lineup at London's Royal Albert Hall and Guy's subsequent signing with Silvertone Records.
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Buddy Guy — Top 30 songs of 509
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buddy Guy | Look What All You Got | ||
| Buddy Guy | Love Is Like Quicksand | ||
| Buddy Guy | Skin deep | ||
| Buddy Guy | Break Out All Over | ||
| Buddy Guy | Forty Days and Forty Nights | ||
| Buddy Guy | What Kind Of Woman Is This | ||
| Buddy Guy | One Day Away | ||
| Buddy Guy | The Definitive Buddy Guy (8) | ||
| Buddy Guy | My Mama Loved Me | ||
| Buddy Guy | One Room Country Shack (A Man & the Blues) | ||
| Buddy Guy | I Could Cry | ||
| Buddy Guy | 74 Years Young | ||
| Buddy Guy | Best In Town | ||
| Buddy Guy | Everytime I Sing the Blues (feat. Eric Clapton) | ||
| Buddy Guy | Somebody's Sleeping In My Bed | ||
| Buddy Guy | Stone Crazy | ||
| Buddy Guy | There Is Something On Your Mind | ||
| Buddy Guy | When My Day Comes | ||
| Buddy Guy | The Blues Don't Lie | ||
| Buddy Guy | My Love Is Real | ||
| Buddy Guy | I Came Up Hard | ||
| Buddy Guy | I Suffer with the Blues | ||
| Buddy Guy | One Room Country Shack | ||
| Buddy Guy | Ten Years Ago | ||
| Buddy Guy | Watch Yourself | ||
| Buddy Guy | The Best of the Blues [Columbia] | ||
| Buddy Guy | Hello San Francisco | ||
| Buddy Guy | My Mother | ||
| Buddy Guy | Broken Hearted Blues | ||
| Buddy Guy | We Go Back (feat. Mavis Staples) |