Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guitar Shorty, a blues great for more than six decades known for his stage antics and awesome guitar solos, died Wednesday in Los ...

Guitar Shorty was born David William Kearney on September 8, 1939 in Houston, Texas and raised in Kissimmee, Florida by his grandmother. He began playing guitar as a young boy, excited by the sounds ...

"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 ...

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 ...

It’s a grudge that goes back to 1998, when he was the lead-in to Ray Charles at the Chicago Blues Festival. He went overtime. And he didn’t care. Nobody can recall the song. Nobody can recall what ...

Ahead of his second India tour, blues guitar legend Guitar Shorty talks about playing with Ray Charles, and guitaring standing on his head A crowd watches, awestruck, as a guitarist dishes out riffs, ...

Bluesman Guitar Shorty could just flip over the fact that he's able to do what he does for a living. No, literally. Aside from his catchy nickname (more on that later) and one-of-a-kind licks and ...

Guitar Shorty, a blues great for more than six decades known for his stage antics and awesome guitar solos, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 87 and his death was attributed to natural causes by ...

Guitar Shorty is in his 70s, yet the bluesman can still rock a mean blues guitar better than most youngsters. Shorty has been in the music industry for five decades, breaking into the business as a ...

David William Kearney, from Houston, tells many entertaining stories about music-industry luminaries such as Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy and Guitar Slim, and for all I know, they’re true. Even though ...