Guitar Shorty Interview

The Advocate from Louisiana, not the one you were thinking, has an interview with the legendary Guitar Shorty. As many of you may have read in an earlier post, Guitar Shorty is married to Jimi Hendrix's step sister. Legend has it that Jimi learned a lot of his tricks from Guitar Shorty. Read the interview HERE.

Guitar Shorty Interveiw/ Hickory Smoked Music Festival

Another great interview with Guitar Shorty. This interview is from Press and Sun Bulletin from Binghampton NY. Guitar Shorty is playing the Hickory Smoked Music Festival in Owego NY. Here is the schedule of events for the show.

12:15 p.m.: Owego Free Academy (OFA) Jazz Band (National Anthem)

1:30 p.m.: Professor Louie & the Crowmatix

2:45 p.m.: Outta Time Blues with Mac McGhee

4 p.m.: Frostbit Blue

5:15 p.m.: Mac Arnold & Plate Full O'Blues

6:30 p.m.: Rosie Ledet

7:45 p.m.: Guitar Shorty

9 p.m.: Roosevelt Dean Blues Band


For more information about the festival check out the festival website HERE.

Guitar Shorty: Wild Walking Guitar Solo

This is an incredible video of Guitar Shorty walking outside of a blues club, up into a parking garage, down some stairs, into the alley, and back into the club! Pretty cool clip. I also swear the drummer is the late John "Woody" Wood, but I doubt it. I do know that it was filmed in Santa Monica California, so who knows.

Guitar Shorty Interveiw

From the San Antonio Express News comes an interview with Guitar Shorty. One of the interesting facts from the interview is that Guitar Shorty married Marsha Hendrix step sister of Jimi Hendrix. The story tries to imply that Guitar Shorty's wild stage shows influenced Hendrix, and it is quite possible. Remember that nothing happens in a vacuum, as Guitar Shorty mentioned he got the idea to do wild stage shows from watching Guitar Slim.