Master bluesman Guitar Shorty will celebrate the release of his Alligator Records CD Watch Your Back with a live performance in Levittown. Credited with influencing Jimi Hendrix, Shorty has been ...

Guitar Shorty was born David William Kearney on September 8, 1939 in Houston, Texas and raised in Kissimmee, Florida by his grandmother. He began playing guitar as a young boy, excited by the sounds ...

"The Best of Guitar Shorty: The Long and Short of It" Shout! Factory AMONG THE COUNTLESS curiosities now appearing on YouTube is a video clip from "The Gong Show" in which Guitar Shorty takes top ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guitar Shorty, a blues great for more than six decades known for his stage antics and awesome guitar solos, died Wednesday in Los ...

It’s a grudge that goes back to 1998, when he was the lead-in to Ray Charles at the Chicago Blues Festival. He went overtime. And he didn’t care. Nobody can recall the song. Nobody can recall what ...

Ahead of his second India tour, blues guitar legend Guitar Shorty talks about playing with Ray Charles, and guitaring standing on his head A crowd watches, awestruck, as a guitarist dishes out riffs, ...

Bluesman Guitar Shorty could just flip over the fact that he's able to do what he does for a living. No, literally. Aside from his catchy nickname (more on that later) and one-of-a-kind licks and ...

HATCH - Leading up to the Hatch Chile Festival on Labor Day weekend, legendary blues guitarist Guitar Shorty will play a free concert at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 2, at Sparky’s Burgers and BBQ ...

Guitar Shorty, a renowned blues guitarist and singer who dazzled audiences with his acrobatic showmanship, doing backflips, headstands and somersaults while commanding the stage with a muscular style ...

Guitar Shorty, a blues great for more than six decades known for his stage antics and awesome guitar solos, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 87 and his death was attributed to natural causes by ...

Take off your good hat before searching for Guitar Shorty on YouTube, because your brain’s about to be blown. Crudely shot amateur footage (of which there is plenty) reveals Shorty to be a sort of ...