When I Left Home - Buddy Guy

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Résumé :
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....

Biographie:
Buddy Guy was born in 1936 in Lettsworth, Louisiana. He is considered among the best blues guitarists alive today. He lives in Chicago.

David Ritz is the coauthor of many bestselling autobiographies of musicians, including Ray Charles, Etta James, Scott Weiland, Grandmaster Flash, and more. He is the author of Divided Soul, the definitive biography of Marvin Gaye, and lives in Los Angeles....

Sommaire:
s epic story stands at the absolute nexus of modern blues. He came to Chicago from rural Louisiana in the fifties—...

Kirkus, 2/15/12 Tasty as a Buddy Guy guitar lick.Library Journal, 3/1/12 Guy is a vibrant and hilarious storyteller. With a natural ease and honesty, he captures the spirit of the age, the culture of violence in the clubs, and the personalities of his colleagues...Highly recommended for any fan of Guy and those interested in the history of blues music. Publishers Weekly, 4/16/12 As mesmerizing a storyteller as a guitarist, Guy, writing with Ritz, regales readers with tales of growing up picking cotton in rural Alabama, of seeing his first guitar and standing transfixed in front of Lightning Slim for several hours just memorizing the movements of Slim's hands, of his father's friend buying his first guitar for him, and of his endless efforts to play the blues as he had heard and seen Slim and others play.Guy's memoir is a joyous celebration of the blues, one of our greatest musical treasures. Chicago Magazine, May 2012 [A] must-read autobiography.What makes the breezy and revealing book special is its ability to bring history-Guy's own, as well as that of Chicago blues-to life. Internet Review of Books, 4/6/12 In When I Left Home: My Story we finally get inside Buddy Guy, guitar muse to Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and the Rolling Stones (to name but a few).Buddy's narrative is cousin to his music. It's down home. It's not clean and prissy.This biography gives the reader unabridged stories of many of the great blues artists of his day and before, and raw images of the Chicago blues scene as it was from the 1950s to the 1980s.A valuable and rare insight into the music and the musician. Record Collector, May 2012 Gives the whole picture, from sharecropping family to big city hustling; guitar-playing to womanizing and back again.[Guy] gives a real flavour of the age and circumstances he grew up on. Boston Globe, 5/11/12 A lively, sharply etched account of Guy's unlikely ascent from sharecropper r