Buddy Guy
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George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning American blues guitarist and singer. Well known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and other blues and rock guitar legends, Guy is considered an important exponent of the Chicago blues style.

Buddy Guy has been called the bridge between the blues and rock and roll. He is one of the historic links between Chicago electric blues pioneers Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and popular musicians like Clapton, Beck, Hendrix, and Vaughan. This was what Vaughan meant when he said in a television interview, "Without Buddy Guy, there would be no Stevie Ray Vaughan."

At Buddy's 2005 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Eric Clapton said "Buddy Guy was to me what Elvis was for others." Clapton, who's not prone to hyperbole, insisted in a 1985 Musician magazine article that "Buddy Guy is by far and without a doubt the best guitar player alive...if you see him in person, the way he plays is beyond anyone. Total freedom of spirit, I guess… He really changed the course of rock and roll blues."

Don't miss this opportunity to see "the real deal" in an intimate setting.

This performance is sponsored in part by the Furman Mathewson Trust of the Edgecombe County Memorial Library.

Tickets: $25 public, $20 senior (65+), ECC faculty/staff, and students.

Visit http://www.edgecombe.edu/ac_and_t_center/event_schedule.htm for more information on ticket sales for this event and many more.

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