David Ritz

Buddy Guy

A great blues guitarist chronicles his eventful life, from his modest upbringing in rural Louisiana to his rise to prominence in the Chicago blues scene to his becoming a lasting influence on Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn and many others.

My Story

When I Left Home

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Contains 20 of the bluesmaster's classics transcribed note for note with tab: Damn Right, I've Got the Blues * First Time I Met the Blues * Five Long Years * I Smell a Rat * Leave My Girl Alone * Let Me Love You Baby * Midnight Train * My Time After Awhile * She Suits Me to a Tee * Stone Crazy * and more.

Buddy Guy Anthology (Songbook)

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 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. He was a regular session player at Chess Records. Willie Dixon was his mentor. He was a sideman in the bands of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He and Junior Wells formed a band of their own. In the sixties, he became a recording star in his own right. When I Left Home tells Guy's picaresque story in his own unique voice, that of a storyteller who remembers everything, including blues masters in their prime and the exploding, evolving culture of music that happened all around him.

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