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Guitar Shorty

Born
September 8, 1939
in Belhaven, NC 
Active Decades
19001020304050607080902000 
 
by Bill Dahl
When he's not turning somersaults, doing backward flips, and standing on his head -- all while playing, of course -- Guitar Shorty is prone to cutting loose with savagely slashing licks on his instrument. Live, he's simply amazing -- and after some lean years, his recent albums for Black Top and Evidence have proven that all that energy translates vividly onto tape.



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