Leonard Chess used Guy mainly as a session guitarist to back Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Koko Taylor and others.

Jimi Hendrix sometimes cancelled his own concerts to attend Guy’s club shows, which he filmed or audio taped

“Without Buddy Guy, there would be no Stevie Ray Vaughan.”- Stevie Ray Vaughn

Clapton admitted that he got his idea for a bluesrock power trio during his teenage years while watching Buddy Guy’s trio perform in England in 1965. Clapton later formed the rock band Cream, which was “the first rocksupergroup to become superstars” and was also “the first top group to truly exploit the power-trio format, in the process laying the foundation for much blues-rock and hard rock of the 1960s and 1970s.”

“Geez, you can’t forget Buddy Guy. He transcended blues and started becoming theater. It was high art, kind of like drama theater when he played, you know. He was playing behind his head long before Hendrix. I once saw him throw the guitar up in the air and catch it in the same chord.” – Jeff Beck

Donnie Mortimer – Back To Your Arms (Demo)

Donnie Mortimer – Back To Your Arms (Band Rehearsal)

Donnie Mortimer – Back To Your Arms (Rough Mix)

Donnie Mortimer – Back To Your Arms (Final Mix)

While working on Donnie Mortimer’s new album, I was intentional about documenting the process of how these songs were being written, recorded, and produced. I thought it’d be cool to post detailing the process of how a song makes it from somebody’s head to your iTunes library. It’s an interesting journey.

The Process

• Donnie showed the band the full song on acoustic guitar
• We’d talk about it and then jammed on it.
• After parts were worked out, we fine tuned the band arrangement adding the bridge section.
• We played the arrangement for Gerry.  Gerry gave us his input on parts, tempo suggestions, & etc…
• We reworked the arrangement per Gerry suggestions.
• We live tracked: guitars, scratch vocals, drums, bass, & piano.
• We overdubbed the piano part after realizing the original piano track was too out of tune for the mix.
  Trace (piano) had already left the sessions, so I overdubbed a piano part after we had a visit from the piano tuner.
• We overdubbed a rhodes part.
• We also overdubbed any obvious guitar, bass, drum flubs.
• PRINCIPAL RECORDING DONE (Shaun, Jim, Jason, Trace have all left)
• Donnie & Gerry reconvened at a later time.  They re-recorded Donnie’s vocal track, & Gerry adds some ethereal guitar.
• The track was then taken “Mama” for mixing.

I recorded an album in January with Donnie Mortimer & Friends
It was recorded at Duncan Sheik‘s home studio in Garrison NY
Gerry Leonard (David Bowie’s guitarist on his last tour) is producing the recording, and Michael “Mama” Tudor recorded it & is mixing it.

you can read more here…