Albert king and buddy guy biography
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THE PREMIERE BLUES CLUB IN THE WORLD
Since its opening in June of ’89, Buddy Guy’s Legends has built a reputation as the premiere blues club in the world. Backed by Mr. Guy’s personal reputation as the crowned king of Chicago’s electric blues scene and his 50+ years in the music business, Legends is distinguished for its innovative scheduling of local, national, and international blues acts.
THE WORLD’S MOST TALENTED MUSICIANS
In the twenty-five years that Legends has been open, the stage has been graced by some of the world’s most talented musicians. Blues greats like Willie Dixon, Koko Taylor, Otis Rush, Albert Collins, B.B. King, Hubert Sumlin, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and Junior Wells. Rock stars, including Bo Diddley, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, ZZ Top, Lou Rawls, Gregg Allman and Slash. Even pop stars like John Mayer, Sheila E and The Pointer Sisters have made their way to this legendary stage.
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Buddy Guy
American blues guitarist and singer (born 1936)
Musical artist
George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936)[1] is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is an exponent of Chicago blues who has influenced generations of guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray efternamn, 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 has won eight Grammy Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honors. Guy was ranked 27th in Rolling Stone magazine's 2023 list of greatest guitarists of all time.[2] His song "Stone Crazy" was ranked 78th in the Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest gitarr Songs of All Time".[3] Clapton once described him as "the best gitarr player alive".[4] In 1999, Guy wro
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Buddy Guy - Lettsworth, LA
George “Buddy” Guy, one of the most dazzling performers in blues history, was born here in Lettsworth on July 30, 1936. His primary influences included local Louisiana musicians and many more who were born across the river in Mississippi, including B.B. King, Guitar Slim, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. Guy’s connections with Mississippi blues remained vibrant throughout a monumental career as a recipient of multiple GRAMMY® and Blues Music Awards and inductee into the Blues and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame.
Buddy Guy, like his idol B.B. King, rose to the top of the blues world from humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son. The Guy family lived in a house that stood about 250 feet south-southeast of this site on the Feduccia family’s Three Rivers Landing plantation. His father Sam Guy bought Buddy his first guitar from another fieldhand, Henry “Coot” Smith, who showed Buddy how to play John Lee Hooker’s “Boogie Chillen,” which was already the favorite