Results for "Buddy Guy"

Hear My Train A Comin': The Songs Of Jimi Hendrix

by Ian Patterson
December 20, 2020

Hear My Train A Comin':The Songs Of Jimi Hendrix Kevin Le Gendre 240 Pages ISBN: 97818000500143 Equinox 2020 Few artists have burned as briefly and brightly as Jimi Hendrix, the Afro-American guitarist and singer who set the late 1960s alight with his virtuosity and showmanship. Fifty years after he ...

Tony Davis: Golden Year

by Kyle Simpler
July 27, 2020

Tony Davis definitely knows how to get things done. At 25, he has already earned a Master's Degree and is involved in musical education. He has played and recorded with some of the most notable jazz musicians around, including the group, Works for Me. With Golden Year, his first solo album, Davis captures the energy of ...

Brandon “Taz” Niederauer: A Minor with a Major Future

by Alan Bryson
July 7, 2020

Though only seventeen, guitarist/singer/songwriter Brandon Niederauer has amassed a staggering list of accomplishments. At age ten he was a guest and performer on The Ellen DeGeneres Show--the YouTube clip of which has over 3,200,000 views. Two years later he landed a role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway Musical, School of Rock. He has performed a Hendrixesque version ...

B.B. King: Through the Years

by Alan Bryson
June 13, 2020

Sixty-six years passed from the time in 1948 when Riley King auditioned for a spot on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program, until his final performance at the House of Blues on October 3, 2014 in Chicago. His life was a remarkable odyssey from a sharecropper's cabin to the pinnacle of success. We'll never know how many ...

Buddy Guy

Born: July 30, 1936

The Blues' most electrifying guitarist, Guy has remained avital and current musician, moving blues forward withoutlosing sight of its roots. He’s renowned for his raw, blisteringvocals and high-voltage guitar playing. Guy regards himselfas a “caretaker of the blues.” Having learned from the likesof Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Guitar Slim and Magic Sam,he explains, “I just take what they taught me and keepadding to it.”

George “Buddy” Guy was born in 1936 in Lettsworth,Louisiana. His earliest influences included T-Bone Walker,Lightnin’ Slim and Lightnin’ Hopkins - blues musicians whowere all uniquely expressive stylists and showmen. Guy’shigh-energy showmanship also owed a debt to Guitar Slim,of “The Things That I Used to Do” fame. Along the way, hedeveloped his own style, typified by a fierce, staccato attackand tense, single-note solos.

Samantha Fish: Kill Or Be Kind

by Doug Collette
September 28, 2019

Wielding her guitar as she adopts a saucy blonde bombshell pose, the image Samantha Fish projects on the cover of her Rounder Records debut would mean next to nothing if the music inside didn't deliver a similarly striking impact. Recorded at largely at Royal Studios in Memphis and another two sites in New Orleans, the woman's ...

ELLNORA: The Guitar Festival

by John Ephland
September 27, 2019

Krannert CenterELLNORA: The Guitar Festival Champaign/Urbana, IL September 5-7, 2019 It takes place every other year; every odd year. Going back to 2005, ELLNORA: The Guitar Festival, held in the University of Illinois' Champaign-Urbana' one-stop-shop Krannert Center, has been celebrating the works of an amazing array of plectrists from all walks ...

Late Summer 2019

by Doug Collette
September 4, 2019

Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. The Mike Duke Project ...took a while Little Village Foundation 2019 ...took a while ...

Rory Gallagher: Blues - Deluxe Edition

by Doug Collette
June 9, 2019

The Chess Records logo appears prominently on the cover of Rory Gallagher's Blues, seemingly a mere cosmetic touch, but in fact a telling facet of the graphic design adorning this handsome three-CD set that underscores the authenticity of the music inside. The glossy fold-out insert inside the slipcase of this Deluxe Edition also hearkens to the ...

Joanne Shaw Taylor: Reckless Heart

by Doug Collette
May 25, 2019

In marked contrast to Joanne Shaw Taylor's somewhat constrained approach on Wild (Silvertone/Sony, 2018), this 'girl with the big voice from the Black Country' of Britain wastes no time on the aptly-titled Restless Heart. The hell-bent-for-leather abandon with which she leads “In The Mood" lives up to its suggestive title, and packs all the more punch ...