HATCH - Leading up to the Hatch Chile Festival on Labor Day weekend, legendary blues guitarist Guitar Shorty will play a free concert at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 2, at Sparky’s Burgers and BBQ ...

After five decades in music, Guitar Shorty has stories. Stories of betrayal, loss and pleading that burn in a Chicago blues style. Despite all the heart wrenching, Shorty (a.k.a. David William Kearney ...

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 ...

David Kearney, aka Guitar Shorty, is one of the highest-energy and most popular bluesmen on today's expansive and eclectic music scene. He's influenced some of America's most influential musicians, ...

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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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

Guitar Shorty was hearing the same thing from just about everyone he knew, including his management, record label and booking agents. Their message: Get out of California. "Promoters would call and ...

Residing well across the country and a favorite of blues fans, Shorty is a massive entertaining presence. Shorty was born David Kearney in Houston, Texas. As a young boy he would sneak into his ...

Oct. 28: Born David William Kearney in Houston in 1939, Guitar Shorty grew up in Florida and made an impression in New Orleans, on the West Coast, and all over North America and Europe, playing ...