Buddy Guy

George "Buddy" Guy (lahir 30 Juli 1936) adalah seorang gitaris dan penyanyi blues Amerika. Dia adalah seorang ahli dalam Chicago blues yang telah memengaruhi generasi gitaris termasuk Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr., dan John Mayer. Pada tahun 1960-an, Guy bermain dengan Muddy Waters sebagai gitaris sesi di Chess Records dan memulai kemitraan musik dengan virtuoso harmonika blues Junior Wells.

Guy telah memenangkan delapan Grammy Awards dan Lifetime Achievement Award, National Medal of Arts, dan Kennedy Center Honors. Guy berada di peringkat ke-27 dalam daftar majalah Rolling Stone gitaris terhebat sepanjang masa tahun 2023. Lagunya "Stone Crazy" berada di peringkat ke-78 dalam daftar Rolling Stone dari "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time".. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2011-01-25. "Cut in 1961 for Chess, the full seven minutes of this blinding blues went unreleased for nearly a decade. Guy solos with a steel-needle tone, answering his own barking vocal with dizzying pinpoint stabs. 'I don't know how to bend the string', he told RS. 'Let me break it.’" Clapton pernah menggambarkannya sebagai "pemain gitar terbaik yang masih hidup"."Buddy Guy". Rolling Stone archive . Retrieved June 29, 2015. Pada tahun 1999, Guy menulis buku Damn Right I've Got the Blues, dengan Donald Wilcock. Autobiografinya, When I Left Home: My Story, diterbitkan pada tahun 2012.Guy, Buddy; Ritz, David. (2012) When I Left Home: My Story. Cambridge: Da Capo Press. 

 Biografi 
Buddy Guy terlahir sebagai George Guy pada 30 Juni, 1936 di Lettsworth, Lousiana. Dia terlahir dalam lima bersaudara dari pasangan Sam dan Isabel Guy. Saat berumur tujuh tahun, ia memiliki ketertarikan tinggi terhadap musik. Pada usia ini pula ia membuat instrumen swakarya dari sepotong kayu dan jepit rambut yang ia anggap sebuah gitar.

Ketika usianya menginjak 19 tahun, Guy mulai bekerja di Lousiana State University sebagai seorang kustodian. Pada waktu yang sama, ia juga mendapat gitar pertamanya dan mulai bermain di klub-klub sekitar Baton Rouge. Walaupun ia terus meningkatkan kemampuan bermusiknya, ia hanya baru memulai karier bermusiknya pada musim panas tahun 1957.

 Diskografi 
Album  Tahun  Label  CatatanHoodoo Man Blues   1965  Delmark  w/ Junior Wells band Chicago/The Blues/Today! vol. 1   1966  Vanguard  w/ Junior Wells band It’s my Life, Baby!  1966  Vanguard  w/ Junior Wells band I Left My Blues in San Francisco   1967  Chess   A Man and the Blues   1968  Vanguard   Coming At You  1968  Vanguard   Blues Today  1968  Vanguard   This Is Buddy Guy (live)   1968  Vanguard   Hot And Cool  1969  Vanguard   First Time I Met the Blues-Python  1969     Buddy and the Juniors   1970  MCA  w/ Junior Mance & Junior Wells South Side Blues Jam  1970  Delmark  w/ Junior Wells and Otis Spann In The Beginning  1971  Red Lightnin’   Play The Blues   1972  Rhino  w/ Junior Wells Hold That Plane!  1972  Vanguard   I Was Walking Through the Woods   1974  Chess  rec. 1960–64 Got to Use Your House  1979  Blues Ball   Stone Crazy   1981  Alligator   Alone & Acoustic  1981  Alligator   Drinkin' TNT 'n' Smokin' Dynamite (live)   1982  Blind Pig  rec. 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival DJ Play My Blues  1982  JSP Records   Dollar Done Fell  1982  JSP Records   Buddy Guy   1983  Chess   The Original Blues Brothers (live)  1983  Blue Moon   Ten Blue Fingers  1985  JSP Records   Atlantic Blues: Chicago  1986  Atlantic   Chess Masters  1987  Charly)   Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago-1979  1988  JSP Records   Breakin Out  1988  JSP Records   I Ain’t Got No Money  1989  Flyright   Alone & Acoustic   1991  Alligator  rec. 1981 w/ Junior Wells Damn Right, I've Got the Blues   1991  Silvertone/BMG   Buddy's Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy   1991  Silvertone   My Time After Awhile  1992  Vanguard   The Very Best of Buddy Guy   1992  Rhino/WEA   The Complete Chess Studio Recordings   1992  Chess  2 CD, 1960–67 Live at Montreaux   1992  Evidence  w/ Junior Wells Feels Like Rain   1993  Silvertone   Slippin' In   1994  Silvertone   Live: The Real Deal   1996  Silvertone   Buddy's Blues   1997  Chess "Chess Masters"   Buddy’s Blues 1978-1982: The Best of the JSP Recordings  1998  JSP Records   As Good As It Gets   1998  Vanguard   Heavy Love   1998  Silvertone   Last Time Around - Live at Legends   1998  Jive  w/Junior Wells This Is Buddy Guy  1998  VMD   Blues Master  1998  Vanguard   Buddy’s Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy  1999  Silvertone   The Complete Vanguard Recordings  2000  Vanguard   Every Day I Have the Blues  2000  Purple Pyramid  w/ Junior Wells 20th Century Masters: The Millennium: The Best of Buddy Guy  2001  MCA   Sweet Tea   2001  Silvertone   Double Dynamite  2001  AIM Recording Co.  Import Blues Singer  || 2003 || Silvertone || 
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| Chicago Blues Festival 1964 (live)  || 2003 || Stardust || 
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| Jammin’ Blues Electric & Acoustic || 2003 || Sony || 
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| Live At the Mystery Club || 2003 || Quicksilver || 
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| A Night of the Blues || 2005 ||  || w/ Junior Wells - Master Classics
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| Bring 'Em In || 2005 || Jive || 
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| Can't Quit The Blues:Box Set  || 2006 || Silvertone/Legacy Recordings || 
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| Live: The Real Deal || 2006 || Sony || w/ G.E. Smith & Saturday Night Live Band
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| Skin Deep''  2008  Zomba 

 Referensi 

 Pranala luar 
 Buddy Guy: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee
 Situs Resmi
 Buddy Guy: Billboard Magazine’s Century Award 
 Buddy Guy: All Music Guide biography
 Buddy Guy: Tribute Site 
 Buddy Guy: Buddy's Chicago Club Website 
 Buddy Guy Interview & Music Video 
 Buddy Guy at Legacy Recordings  - A focus on Buddy's catalog

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