Buddy Guy

Birth Name:

George Guy

Birth Place:

Lettsworth, Louisiana, United States

Profession

Soundtrack, Actor, Music department

Inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2008
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005
Named a National Medal of Arts Recipient in 2003
Named an honoree at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors
Began performing with the band of John "Big Poppa" Tilley
Initially learned the play the guitar on a two-string diddley bow that he made himself
Quote: "Every night I pick the guitar for the audience and even if the club only holds 10 people who don't know who I am, they will when they leave․"
Quote: "My children didn't know who I was until they got to be 21 because you have got to be 21 to get into a blues club․ They said, 'Dad, I didn't know you could play․'․"
Influenced Eri Clapton's performance on Cream's "Strange Brew․"
Worked as a Chess Records session guitarist for Muddy Waters

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