Authors: Buddy Guy
When I Left Home (31 page)
Beatles
Beck, Jeff
plays on
Damn Right
. . .
Damn Right
. . .
recognizes blues, Buddy
Below, Fred
as best shuffle drummer
as Buddy’s drummer
in Four Aces
Bennett, Wayne
Berry, Chuck
Big Boy Crudup
Big Eyes (Willie Smith)
Big Poppa
Billboard
magazine Century Award
magazine Century Award
Bishop, Elvin
Bland, Bobby Blue
Bloomfield, Michael
Blue Thumb Records
Blues Foundation award
Blues music
early experiences
Austin as blues capital
authentic, according to Muddy Waters
band in blues heaven
business slows in clubs
Chicago styles
dying with the blues
fluctuations of blues’ popularity
and hippies
making life better
as religion
restricted by purists
as sexy
white audiences, white musicians
See also
Guitar playing
Guitar playing
“Boogie Chillen” song (Hooker)
Boston music scene
“Break of Day” song (Howlin’ Wolf)
Breaking Out
album (Guy)
album (Guy)
Brooklyn Dodgers
Broonzy, Big Bill
Brown, James
Brown, Raymond
Buddy and the Juniors
album
album
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells Play the Blues
album
album
Buddy’s Blues
album and song (Guy)
album and song (Guy)
Burrage, Harold
Butterfield, Paul
Canada tours, concerts, and gigs
Chalk, Lawrence.
See
Shorty
See
Shorty
Chapman, Tracy
Charles, Ray
Charters, Samuel
Checkerboard blues club, Chicago
purchased
holds Muddy Waters tribute
site for playing, recording, filming
closes as financial loss
Chess, Leonard
Buddy as musical plumber
and folk music trend
gives no credit, profits, to musicians
and Muddy Waters
referred to by Diggy Doo
and rock and roll trend
tries to get Buddy to change name
death of
Chess, Marshall
produces
Electric Mud
Electric Mud
supports musical freedom for Buddy
Chess, Phil
Chess Records
turns away Buddy
discography
produces Koko Taylor
restricts playing on other labels
sideman work
loses Buddy to Vanguard
closes
Chicago
blues styles
first recordings
job hunting
move from Baton Rouge
Muddy Waters blues legacy
music scene
playing in clubs
seen by father Sam Guy
Clapton, Eric
Alpine Valley concert
coproduces Atlantic album
gives credit to blues, Buddy
plays on Buddy’s records
Prince Albert Hall concerts
records with Howlin’ Wolf
Cleve, Schoolboy
Club 47, Boston
Club 99, Joliet, Illinois
Cobra Records
Columbia Records
Coot.
See
Smith, Henry “Coot”
See
Smith, Henry “Coot”
Cops in Chicago
Copyrights.
See
Publishing rights and missed royalties
See
Publishing rights and missed royalties
Cotton, James
Cotton picking
at age of nine
Earl Hooker’s story
as hard work
“Country Boy” song (Waters)
Cowboy music
Cray, Robert
Cream
Curly’s club, Chicago
Cuscuna, Michael
D. J. Play My Blues
album (Guy)
album (Guy)
Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues
album (Guy)
album (Guy)
Davis, Miles
Delmark Records
Detroit Junior
Diddley, Bo
Diggy Doo (Ray Meadows)
Dixon, Willie
with Eli Toscano, Cobra Records
Howlin’ Wolf session
and John Lee Hooker
on
Muddy Waters: Folk Singer
Muddy Waters: Folk Singer
produces Buddy’s records
takes credit for others’ songs
writes “The Same Thing,”
Dr. John
Dorqus (Phyllis’s daughter)
Drysdale, Don
Electric Mud
album (Waters)
album (Waters)
Employment
in Baton Rouge
searching in Chicago
supplements music income
England
and Muddy Waters
musicians mimic Buddy’s style
recordings, concerts, tours
Ertegun, Ahmet
Europe tours
in ’80s
recording with Tricard
with Rolling Stones
with T-Bone Walker, Roy Orbison
Evers, Medgar
F&J Lounge, Gary, Indiana
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Faith in God, religious beliefs of family
Fathers and Sons
album (Waters)
album (Waters)
“Feel Like Going Home” song (Waters)
Festival Express Canada rail tour
“First Time I Met the Blues” song (Montgomery)
Folk music
as acoustic, white
American Folk Blues Festival
Mariposa Folk Festival
as old-time acoustic blues
Fred (owner of F&J Lounge)
“Further on Up the Road” song (Bland)
Garcia, Jerry
Gary, Indiana, music scene
Gatemouth (Clarence Brown)
Gaye, Marvin
Germany
Gibson Flying V guitar of Albert King
Gold, Ben
“Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl” song (Williamson I)
“Got My Mojo Working” song (Waters)
Grammy Awards
Guitar playing
effects of Lightnin’ Slim, “Boogie Chillen,”
first guitars
battles in Chicago
with blues at core
double-neck guitar
Earl Hooker as slide man
electric compared to acoustic
fuzz tones with distortion
Guitar Slim’s influence
inability to read music
popularity of Eric Clapton
as sideman
standing rather than sitting
using finger picks
wah-wah pedal
Guitar Slim
deserves recognition
early influence
spirit at 708 Club
Guitars
Gibson Flying V (of Albert King)
Harmony
Les Paul Gibson
Lucille (of B. B. King)
Strat (Fender Stratocaster)
Guy, Annie Mae (sister)
Guy, (George) Buddy
childhood on Louisiana farm
in Baton Rouge
early Chicago life, job hunting
Checkerboard club owner
Gary, Indiana, music scene
Legends club owner
manages Joliet Club
marriages, family life
Guy, Carlise DeEtta (daughter)
Guy, Charlotte Renee (daughter)
Guy, Colleen Nanette (daughter)
Guy, Fanny (sister)
Guy, Geoffrey (son)
Guy, George, Jr. (son)
Guy, Gregory (son)
Guy, Isabell (mother)
takes care of family, farm
disabled by stroke
speaks to Buddy in dream
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