by Guy, Buddy
Montgomery, Little Brother
“The Motor City Is Burning” song (Hooker)
Motown
Muddy Waters. See Waters, Muddy
Muddy Waters: Folk Singer album
Murphy, Matt
Musial, Stan
Music. See Blues music; Guitar playing
“My Home Is in the Delta” song (Waters)
“My Time after a While” song (Guy)
Myers, Jack
Neal, Rafel
Needham, Theresa
Newport Folk Festival (1967)
Newport Jazz Festival (1960)
Nighthawk, Robert
99 Club, Joliet, Illinois. See Club
“No Lie” song (Guy)
North Sea Jazz Festival
“Okie Dokie Stomp” song (Gatemouth)
Orbison, Roy
“Out of Sight” song (Brown)
Parker, Charlie
Pepper’s Lounge, Chicago
Phyllis (lady friend in Baton Rouge)
Piano playing
Porter, John
Presley, Elvis
Prince Albert Hall concerts
Publishing rights and missed royalties
of Junior Wells taken by Mel London
taken by Berry from Johnny Johnson
taken by Chess, Dixon
Recordings
first demo
Chess restricts playing style
Dixon takes credit
of full-length albums
produces Koko Taylor
sessions with Howlin’ Wolf
studio work
Redding, Otis
Reed, A. C.
Reed, Jimmy
early influence, first encounter
and Eddie Taylor
and John Lee Hooker
Regal Theater, Chicago
Religious faith
“Rememberin’ Stevie” song (Guy)
Richards, Keith
Robinson, Jackie
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction
Rogers, Jimmy
“Roll Over Beethoven” song (Berry/Johnson)
“Rollin’ Stone” song (Waters)
Rolling Stones
appreciate, recognize, bluesmen
at Chess Records
Chicago concert
influence on blues
and Muddy Waters
opened by Junior Wells, Buddy
Rush, Otis
Rush, Tom
Santana, Carlos
Saunder, Red
Schools
Sealy Club, Chicago
708 Club, Chicago
early bookings
and Muddy Waters, B. B. King
Sharecropping/plantation life
of B.B. King
blues origins
Christmas
girls
of Guy family
of John Lee Hooker
Shorty (Lawrence Chalk)
argues for move to Chicago
as Chicago roommate
as heavy drinker
Silvertone Records
Silvio’s Club, Chicago
“Sit and Cry” song (Guy)
Skin Deep album (Guy)
Smith, Henry “Coot”
family friend
sells guitar to Buddy’s father
Smith, Willie. See Big Eyes (Willie Smith)
“Smokestack Lightnin’” song (Howlin’ Wolf)
The Spaniels
Spann, Otis
as great blues piano man
and Junior Wells
Squeeze Club, Chicago
Stedman, John
Stewart, Rod
Stitt, Sonny
Stone Crazy album and song (Guy)
Strat electric guitar (Fender Stratocaster)
Sumlin, Hubert
and Howlin’ Wolf
session with Chess
tribute to Muddy Waters
“Sweet Home Chicago” song
“Sweet Sixteen” song (King)
Sweet Tea album (Guy)
Tampa Red
Taylor, Eddie
Taylor, Hound Dog
Taylor, Koko
Tedeschi, Susan
Texas
“The Same Thing” song (Dixon)
Theresa’s Club, Chicago
about
harmonica competition
Junior Wells plays
Little Walter’s death
“The Things I Used to Do” song (Guitar Slim)
Thornton, Big Mama
“Tomorrow Night” song (Johnson)
Toronto music scene
Toscano, Eli
as Cobra Records owner
produces Buddy’s first records
dies/disappears
Traveling hippie festival in Canada
True Vine Baptist Church and school, Lettsworth
“Try to Quit You, Baby” song (Guy)
Turcks, Derek
Turner, Ike
Turner, Joe
Turner, Tina
U. S. State Department trips
Universal Records
Vanguard Records
Vaughan, Jimmie
Vaughan, Stevie Ray
leads blues resurgence
plays Alpine Valley concert
death of
“Rememberin’ Stevie” tribute
Vietnam
Violence
assassinations of ’60s
in Chicago clubs
killing at Altamount Rolling Stones concert
killing of Little Walter
robberies of Checkerboard
South Side crime
stabbing of Junior Wells
toward women
Walker, T-Bone
in Europe
plays electrical blues
Wanda (working woman in Gary, Indiana)
“Wang Dang Doodle” song
“Watch Yourself” song (Guy)
Waterman, Dick
Waters, Geneva (Muddy’s wife)
Waters, Muddy
early influence, first meeting
birthday party in Austin
at F&J Lounge, Gary
as a generous spirit
legacy of keeping blues authentic
and Leonard Chess
on Newport Jazz Festival
records with Buddy
with Rolling Stones
takes care of Junior Wells
and women
hospitalization, surgeries
death of
Watson, Johnny Guitar
Wells, Junior
background with Muddy Waters
blood bond with Buddy
competes with Little Walter
goodwill trips
on Howlin’ Wolf
with James Brown complex
at Newport Folk Festival
as problem-drinker
records, plays, with Buddy
stabbed at Pepper’s
uses fake Buddy Guy
death of
“What’d I Say” song (Charles)
White Sox baseball team
Williamson, Sonny Boy
at Chess Records
competes with Little Walter
and Junior Wells
records, plays, with Buddy
Williamson, Sonny Boy (original)
Wilson, Kim
Winter, Johnny
Wolf, Howlin’. See Howlin’ Wolf
Women
in Baton Rouge and Junior Wells
older
as unaffordable luxury
violence toward
“Work with Me, Annie” song (Ballard)
Working women
WXOK radio station
Yardbirds
Young, Mitchell
Z., David
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Guy, Buddy.
When I left home : my story / Buddy Guy with David Ritz.—1st Da Capo Press ed.
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Blues musicians—United States—Biography. 3. Guitarists—United States—Biography. I. Ritz, David. II.
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