142 – Guitar Shorty – Bare Knuckle

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This week you will hear Guitar Shorty talk about his life as a blues man of the road as well as tracks from his hard hitting new record Bare Knuckle.

Guitar Shorty’s last record won 2007’s Blues Music Award for “Contemporary Blues Album of the Year”. You can bet Guitar Shorty’s Bare Knuckle is another hard hitting record.

Guitar Shorty will be asked about working with Ray Charles Band, his first single with the help of Willie Dixon and about a very famous rock star who went AWOL to see a Guitar Shorty shows.

You’ll also hear the title track from his award winning record We The People plus three new songs from Bare Knuckle.

Songs played this week:

We The People (fom We The People)
Please Mr. President (from Bare Knuckle)
Too Late (from Bare Knuckle)
Texas Women (from Bare Knuckle)

Buy Guitar Shorty’s CD’s from Alligator Records

Check out other great CDs on Alligator Records
Like the new ones  by Smokin’ Joe Kubek and Bnois King , Anders Osborne,
Janiva Magness, The Holmes Brothers and Tinsley Ellis

Guitar Shorty’s Website

Guitar Shorty MySpace

Thanks to Guitar Shorty for the cool stories and Bruce Iglauer for setting everything up.

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by A1 Mark