Buddy Guy

'Guitar Legends do not come any better than Buddy Guy. He is feted by his peers and loved by his fans for his ability to make the Guitar both talk and cry the blues. Such is Buddy's mastery of the Guitar that there is virtually no guitarist that he cannot imitate.' - Bill Wyman, Rolling StonesWith an illustrious career spanning over 50 years, American blues guitarist Buddy Guy is considered by many to be one of the greatest guitarists of our age. Eric Clapton once described him as "the best guitar player alive" and he was ranked 30th in Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.With this volume from Hal Leonard's celebrated Guitar Play-Along series, you can emulate the flamboyant and energetic style of the blues legend. Eight Buddy Guy favourites are included: Feels Like Rain, Hoodoo Man Blues, Man Of Many Words, Midnight Train, Someone Else Is Steppin' In, Stone Crazy, What Kind Of Woman Is This and Damn Right, I've Got The Blues.Guitar Play-Along Volume 183: Buddy Guy contains everything you need to start playing your favourite Buddy Guy songs quickly and easily. Listen to the included online audio to hear how the Guitar part should sound, then follow the tab and play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody line and lyrics are included in case you want to sing, or simply to help you follow along.The online audio tracks can be downloaded or streamed and are enhanced with Playback+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys or pan left or right.

According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues. Guy's epic story stands at the absolute nexus of modern blues. He came to Chicago from rural Louisiana in the fifties,the very moment when urban blues were electrifying our culture. He was a regular session player at Chess Records. Willie Dixon was his mentor. He was a sideman in the bands of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He and Junior Wells formed a band of their own. In the sixties, he became a recording star in his own right. When I Left Home tells Guy's picaresque story in his own unique voice, that of a storyteller who remembers everything, including blues masters in their prime and the exploding, evolving culture of music that happened all around him.