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Buddy Guy
Born July 30, 1936 in Lettsworth, Louisiana, USA11 films
George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is an exponent of Chicago blues who has influenced generations of guitarists, including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr., and John Mayer. In the 1960s, Guy played with Muddy Waters as a session guitarist at Chess Records and began a musical partnership with blues harp virtuoso Junior Wells.
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Guy has won eight Grammy Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honors. Guy was ranked 27th in Rolling Stone magazine's 2023 list of greatest guitarists of all time. His song "Stone Crazy" was ranked 78th in the Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". Clapton once described him as "the best guitar player alive". In 1999, Guy wrote the book Damn Right I've Got the Blues with Donald Wilcock. His autobiography, When I Left Home: My Story, was published in 2012.
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First watchSinners20257.5as Old SammieTrying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.View filmEssential films
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11 films as actor- TBABuddy Guy at Vienne
- 2025SinnersOld Sammie
- 2017Homicide McLeodCaptain Oswald
- 2013Buddy Guy Live From Red Rocks 2013vocals, guitar
- 2009In the Electric MistSam 'Hogman' Patin
- 2008Buddy Guy: Live At Montreux 2004guitar, vocals
- 2008Buddy Guy: Live at Estival Jazz Lugano
- 2007Junior Wells & Buddy Guy Live at Nightstage
- 1995Things to Do in Denver When You're DeadHouse Band
- 1991Buddy Guy - Baden-Baden 1991
- 1972Chicago Blues