“I would like to be recognized as one of the greatest guitar players ever to hit the stage.” Guitar Shorty, nee David Kearny, doesn’t waste much time on false modesty, especially since the 64-year-old ...

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 ...

The inbox can be a bummer. Things were skating along on Thursday when an email from Alligator Records landed. “Blues Master Guitar Shorty, September 8, 1934-April 20, 2022,” it read. Huge bummer.

Fame’s fickle spotlight eluded Guitar Shorty for a good quarter-century, before rediscovering him the past few years. A spirited blues guitarist with a strong rock sensibility, Shorty disappeared for ...

When noted bluesman Guitar Shorty blazes into Harvelle’s nightclub in Santa Monica on Saturday, he’ll come armed with his trademark fiery ax and a crack backup band. He’ll also be packing a new CD, ...

"The Best of Guitar Shorty: The Long and Short of It" Shout! Factory AMONG THE COUNTLESS curiosities now appearing on YouTube is a video clip from "The Gong Show" in which Guitar Shorty takes top ...

BECAUSE HE HAS collaborated with such blues legends as Willie Dixon, Guitar Slim and T-Bone Walker, Guitar Shorty is often pigeonholed as an old-school bluesman. But he was also Jimi Hendrix's brother ...

Alligator Records blues guitar star Guitar Shorty will play at 9 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que on West Willow Street. Shorty comes armed with the work from his 2007 CD "We the People," which ...

Each summer seems to offer one song that you just crank up and bust out at the top of your stereo while you cruise in your car... sort of your summertime theme. That song, this summer, was for me the ...

cut his first, Willie Dixon-produced single for Chicago’s Cobra Records in 1957. Fifty-three years later, Shorty, born David Kearney, has lost none of his fire, as evidenced by his new “Bare Knuckle” ...

Correction: Guitar Shorty performs Friday night at Roanoke College’s Olin Theatre. Due to incorrect information on Roanoke College’s online calendar, the wrong location was listed in a story in ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino had some sad news to share on Friday. Blues guitarist Guitar Shorty died on Thursday at the age of 87. He was scheduled to perform at the casino in ...