Buddy Guy

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 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 magazines 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 Ive Got the Blues with Donald Wilcock His autobiography When I Left Home My Story was published in 2012 Description above from the Wikipedia article Buddy Guy licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia