false 2024-01-14 07:19:59 First Time I Met the Blues (1958-1963 Recordings) 2015 2015-01-01 2015-01-01 38 Blues Blues Rock Chicago Blues Electric Blues Hill Country Blues b908eda7-d420-40f3-8183-038314e5f868 4336a134-d091-4e54-9967-c7c433db6d4e 74ad3c38-0f27-41d7-a568-7b6821cbe4a7 /media/data/media5/Music/Buddy Guy/First Time I Met the Blues (1958-1963 Recordings) (2015)/folder.jpg Buddy Guy AlbumArtist /config/metadata/People/B/Buddy Guy/folder.jpg Buddy Guy Artist /config/metadata/People/B/Buddy Guy/folder.jpg Buddy Guy Buddy Guy 2 Try to Quit You, Baby 02:41 3 First Time I Met the Blues 02:16 4 When My Left Eye Jumps 03:52 5 Slop Around 02:08 6 I Got a Strange Feeling 03:04 8 Hully Gully 03:06 13 Skippin' 03:24 16 Ten Years Ago 02:35 18 You Sure Can't Do 02:41 20 Sit and Cry 03:03 23 Broken-Hearted Blues 03:17 24 Too Many Cooks 02:54 25 This Is the End 02:58 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 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.