Guitar Shorty

Guitar Shorty

Location Info

Map

Rhythm Room

1019 E. Indian School Road
Phoenix, AZ 85014

Category: Music Venues

Region: Central Phoenix

Photos

12 user reviews	Write A Review
Save to foursquare	0

Details

Guitar Shorty is scheduled to perform on Friday, July 9, at the Rhythm Room.

Related Content

• Five Must-See Shows This Weekend
  May 11, 2012
• Gardner Cole, What Are You Listening To?
  May 25, 2012
• Ted Nugent: We Spoke to Him Right Before That Controversial Obama Rant
  May 1, 2012
• Felice Brothers' Christmas on Celebration, Florida
  October 17, 2011
• Gil Evans Would Have Been 100 Yesterday -- We Remember The Great Man
  May 14, 2012

More About

• Sam Cook
• Ray Charles
• Little Richard
• Blues Music
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Music Newsletter: Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music listings and show picks. We'll also send special ticket offers and music promotions available only to our Music Newsletter subscribers.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

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 fixture in Ray Charles' band after working as an auto mechanic. He's also worked with Little Richard, Sam Cook, and Big Joe Turner and has been credited with influencing Jimi Hendrix. He's not just a legacy act, either. Bare Knuckle, his latest disc, was released in March and hit number three on the Billboard Blues chart. It's also received some mainstream airplay nationwide. According to some critics, it's his most rockin' album to date. "Most people that I've talked to, so far, have told me this is the best one yet," Shorty (government name: David William Kearney) told an interviewer recently. "I know that I can't satisfy everybody, but I try." Shorty says that after all of these years in the music biz, he knows where he's coming from now more than ever as a musician. "Life is wonderful," he's said. "And if you turn it around, life is a bitch. With the dues you have to pay to stay on this planet, that's why I say it's a bitch. So you stay and fight. And enjoy some of the things you can enjoy." Amen to that.