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Beatles
 
Beck, Jeff
 
plays on
Damn Right
. . .
 
recognizes blues, Buddy
 
Below, Fred
 
as best shuffle drummer
 
as Buddy’s drummer
 
in Four Aces
 
Bennett, Wayne
 
Berry, Chuck
 
Big Boy Crudup
 
Big Eyes (Willie Smith)
 
Big Poppa
 
Billboard
magazine Century Award
 
Bishop, Elvin
 
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
 

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