thedwarf.com.au : Buddy Guy

Wednesday, April 4 2012

Enmore Theatre

130 Enmore Road

Newtown, NSW 2042

(02) 9519 9231

There are great guitarists ... superstar guitarists ... legendary guitarists... and then there is BUDDY GUY.

An all-time favourite and an absolute legend! And if this wasn’t enough Buddy’s special guest for two very special shows in Melbourne & Sydney is guitar virtuoso JONNY LANG.

“BUDDY GUY was for me... what Elvis was for others”, said Eric Clapton... and he wasn’t alone in following his ‘mentor’

“BUDDY GUY plays from a place that I’ve never heard anyone play” - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Every major guitar player without exception gives a nod to BUDDY GUY... who for 50 years has blazed his trail of energetic blues and blues rock, releasing over 60 albums,’ mingling the most deepest of blues with a creative, unpredictable and radical gumbo of the blues, rock, soul and free jazz that morph’s at every performance. And there have been many performances. As one of five children raised on a plantation near the small town of Lettsworth, located some 140 miles northwest of New Orleans, he used to be kicked out for making a racket on his first makeshift “guitar”—a two-string contraption attached to a piece of wood and secured with his mother’s hairpins.
Thankfully for us all ... Buddy kept his faith ... eventually moving to Chicago, meeting and being influenced by Muddy Waters, and later becoming session and backing guitarist for Muddy, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter and others.

BUDDY GUY has received 6 Grammy Awards, 23 W.C. Handy Blues Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. He is ranked in the TOP 30 of Rolling Stones ‘Greatest Guitarists of All Time’; and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.

His last couple of albums have seen him trading licks with Carlos Santana, John Mayer, Robert Randolph, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks - and on his latest album – Living Proof - guests are Carlos Santana (again!!) and a special appearance by BB KING.

The first single from the Living Proof album is ’74 Years Young’ ... a complete biographical look at Buddy’s Life and times...What keeps him going... driving him along... is best left for Buddy to explain: “Blues players don’t stop, they just drop. It’s like my mother used to say about religion—I’m too far gone to turn around!”

Jimi Hendrix once said: “Heaven is lying at BUDDY GUY’s feet while listening to him play guitar”

Tickets are available from the following outlets:

www.ticketek.com.au : 132 849