What’s going on with all this John Mayer? | BUDDY GUY & JOHN MAYER - What Kinda Woman? (Farm Aid 2005)

 Did I miss how good a player John Mayer was?

a sudden rush of clips on media made me sit right back up!

Buddy Guy and John Mayer

(Clip)

What Kinda Woman?

Farm Aid 2005!

Awww shucks let's have the WHOLE thing back then . . . . .

What Kinda Woman

BUDDY GUY : Guitarists | Don’s Tunes

Buddy Guy performed in Cambridge. Copyright Dick Waterman courtesy Govinda Gallery

 Buddy Guy:  

I didn’t start with no Diddley Bo(w)*. My first guitar was a rubber band on nails attached to my mother’s house wall. And a piece of wire that I could move my fingers on to make sounds. So she could hear me play. I remember thinking then, ‘I can manage this!’ Some people made that story about me and a Diddley Bo. But it was never my thing. I got a guitar and I started to learn real fast. I listened to Arthur Cruddup, Robert Johnson, and those guys. I worked real hard, always listening and learning,” he explains.

“I left Louisiana in around 1957. I mostly lied to get away. I lied to my mother. I ain’t proud but I told her I was going to get a good job, to make some money to send to her. Then when she passed away, I remembered what I’d promised her. I was the oldest boy and when I left I looked her in the eye and told her I’d drive back down there in a polka-dot Cadillac. Well, that just stuck in my mind. I remembered her and how I’d lied! So, I came up with the idea of polka-dot guitars, shirts, ties and a whole lot of stuff. Then a lot of other people got that polka-dot thing too; they come to the club, maybe women with polka-dot bags, guys with shirts and ties. And that’s all because of me!”

 

Don's Tunes

Bluestown Music Interview

* for those not in the know a Diddly Bow was a single string often cigar box homemade guitar

a true Diddly Bow geetar

make you own!

I think Buddy’s point here is that he didn’t even start with a sophisticated diddly bow! he had a arrangement of rubber bands!

Guitar |

 Oh guitarists that I DO like?

contd. . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

I got so much flack elsewhere that I thought I would concentrate on those guitarists I DO admire for a while till everyone has cooled off a bit ( having dig at Derek T and Joe B will get you into all sorts of trouble on social media I tell you people!?) . . . . . . hey, now check my back pages for those I have covered

Stevie Ray Vaughan with his rare Gibson L1, [maybe 1929] acoustic guitar solo 1983

Plug it in you say!

Buddy Guy & Stevie Ray Vaughan performing Champagne and Reefer 

LIVE at Buddy Guy's Legends Club July 30th, 1989.