by Guy, Buddy
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
“Boogie Chillen” song (Hooker)
Boston music scene
“Break of Day” song (Howlin’ Wolf)
Breaking Out album (Guy)
Brooklyn Dodgers
Broonzy, Big Bill
Brown, James
Brown, Raymond
Buddy and the Juniors album
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells Play the Blues album
Buddy’s Blues album and song (Guy)
Burrage, Harold
Butterfield, Paul
Canada tours, concerts, and gigs
Chalk, Lawrence. 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
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”
Cops in Chicago
Copyrights. 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)
Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues 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
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)
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)
“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
death of
Guy, Jennifer (second wife)
Guy, Joan (first wife)
Guy, Michael (son)
Guy, Philip (brother)
in family
on Africa trip
as guitarist in Chicago
plays, records, with Buddy
death of
Guy, Rashawnna (daughter)
Guy, Sam (father)
buys Coot’s guitar for Buddy
as father
loves the blues
moves family to Baton Rouge
death of
Hair, Pat
Hambridge, Tom
Hard Again album (Waters)
Harmonica playing
competition
Junior Wells
Little Walter
Harmony guitar
Hendrix, Jimi
about
influenced by Buddy
death of
Hering, Dennis
“Hideaway” song (Taylor)
Hideaway/Mel’s Hideaway
Hip-O Select Records
Hippies
“Hit the Road Jack” song (P. Mayfield)
Hogg, Smokey
“Honeydripper” song (Liggins)
“Hoochie Coochie Man” song (Waters)
Hoodoo Man Blues album with Junior Wells
“Hoodoo Man Blues” song (Wells)
Hooker, Earl
advises against jazz playing
as great slide guitarist
influences Ike Turner
takes Buddy’s equipment
Hooker, John Lee
as early influence first personal encounter
and money
moves to Detroit
at Newport festivals
records with Buddy
death of
Hopkins, Lightnin’. See Lightnin’ Hopkins
Horse taming
Horton, Shakey
House, Son
Howlin’ Wolf
early encounters
as aggressive drunk
with Buddy as musical plumber
at F&J Lounge, Gary
in Rolling Stones concert
death of
Humility and generous spirits
“I Can’t Quit You, Baby” song (Rush)
“I Can’t Stop Loving You” song
“I Don’t Know” song (Mabon)
“I Found a True Love” song (Guy)
“I’m in the Mood” song (Hooker)
Isabell label
Jagger, Mick
James, Clif
James, Elmore
James, Etta
Jazz music
Jerry (Buddy’s horn player)
“Johnny B. Goode” song (Berry/Johnson)
Johnson, Johnny
Johnson, Lonnie
Joliet, Illinois
Jones, Eddie. See Guitar Slim
Joplin, Janis
Jordan, Steve
Joyce (Chicago friend)
JSP Records
Judy (Phyllis’s daughter)
“Juke” song (Little Walter)
“Just to Keep You Satisfied” song (Gaye)
Kennedy, Bobby
Kennedy, John F.
Kimbrough, Junior
King, Albert
King, B. B.
first meeting, influential
disrespected by young blacks
as humble, generous spirit
on jazz
on playing to white audiences
plays on Buddy’s records
“The Thrill Is Gone” hit
King, Freddie
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kingston Trio
Koester, Bob
“Korea Blues” (Lenoir)
Koufax, Sandy
Kramer, Eddie
Lang, Jonny
Last Time Around—Live at Legends album (Guy/Wells)
Lauder, Andrew
Lazy Lester
Leake, Lafayette
“Leave My Girl Alone” song (Guy)
Legends club, Chicago
Lenoir, J. B.
Les Paul Gibson guitar
Let’s Get It On album (Gaye)
Lettsworth, Louisiana
Liggins, Joe
Lightnin’ Hopkins
early influence
as anti-contracts, anti-royalties
deserves fame
uses finger picks
on white audiences, folk music
Lightnin’ Slim
early influence
in Baton Rouge
deserves recognition
Little Richard
Little Walter
early encounter
at Chess Records
at F&J Lounge, Gary
Little Walter (continued)
great harmonica player
“Juke,”
and Muddy Waters
records with Buddy
as violent
death of
Living Proof album (Guy)
London, Mel
London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions album
“Long Distance” song (Waters)
Louis, Joe
Lucille (B. B. King’s guitar)
Mabon, Willie
Magic Sam
Malcolm X,
A Man and the Blues album (Guy)
Mance, Junior
Mayer, John
Mayfield, Curtis
Mayfield, Percy
Mays, Willie
Meadows, Ray. See Diggy Doo
Memphis Slim
“Messin’ with the Kid” song (Wells)
Miller, Rice. See Williamson, Sonny Boy, II
Miller, Steve
Mitch’s Jukebox Lounge, Chicago
“Moanin’ at Midnight” song (Howlin’ Wolf)
Money
advice from Muddy Waters
and blues in ’60s
increases in ’90s
none or little from gigs, recordings
and talent, luck
truck, mechanic, supplemental income
“Money, That’s What I Want” song
