Buddy Guy
Publisher
Reprise Records
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In June 2004, some of the greatest living guitar players and their bands gathered at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas for a three day festival. Features: Eric Clapton, BB King, James Taylor, Joe Walsh, John Mayer, Santana, ZZ TOP and many, many more.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as on Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues. Guy's epic story stands at the absolute nexus of modern blues. He came to Chicago from rural Louisiana in the fifties—the very moment when urban blues were electrifying our culture....