Legendary guitarist/vocalist Guitar Shorty is a giant in the blues world. Credited with influencing both Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy, Guitar Shorty has been electrifying audiences for five decades with ...

The parade of 2011 Blues Music Awards nominees through Topeka continues this weekend when Guitar Shorty, whose song, "Please Mr. President," is up for Song of the Year, performs Saturday night at ...

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Fresh off of his latest record “Bare Knuckle,” blues great Guitar Shorty will be back in Humboldt at the Riverwood Inn in Phillipsville on Saturday night. Signed with Chicago’s Alligator Records, the ...

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 ...

The sixteenth edition of Bluesmore, the Linn County Blues Society's annual event on the Brucemore lawn, found a portion of the large crowd wearing jackets on Saturday to stave off the chill.

David Kearney, aka Guitar Shorty, is one of the highest-energy and most popular bluesmen on today's expansive and eclectic music scene. He's influenced some of America's most influential musicians, ...

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Venerable bluesman Guitar Shorty has rampaged through American music for more than half a century and fortunately for us he shows little signs of stopping any time soon. The Los Angeles-based ...

Blues musician Guitar Shorty has pretty much given up the mid-performance back flips and other extreme physical antics that helped establish his onstage persona in the 1960s and ‘70s. It’s not because ...

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 ...