Blues musician Guitar Shorty has pretty much given up the mid-performance back flips and other extreme physical antics that helped establish his onstage persona in the 1960s and ‘70s. It’s not because ...

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” ...

The parade of 2011 Blues Music Awards nominees through Topeka continues this weekend when Guitar Shorty, whose song, "Please Mr. President," is up for Song of the Year, performs Saturday night at ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Guitar Shorty, a renowned blues guitarist and singer who dazzled audiences ...

On Friday, Oct. 14, revved-up rockabilly guitarist Reverend Horton Heat roars into the Hangar at Rendon Inn with the Supersuckers and Dan Sartain. Out-there hard rock guitarist Buckethead shreds at ...

LITTLE ROCK — Few are the guitarists who can credibly claim that they influenced Jimi Hendrix, let alone that Jimi "stole" some of their trademark licks. Guitar Shorty can make such a claim. Born ...

Venerable bluesman Guitar Shorty has rampaged through American music for more than half a century and fortunately for us he shows little signs of stopping any time soon. The Los Angeles-based ...

OUT, DAMNED SPOT: If you think of gloomy, incomprehensible poetry when you think of Shakespeare, then you don't know Mac! "Macbeth," that is, which opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Cascades Park ...

ZANESVILLE — In a Denny’s diner off Interstate 70 in Zanesville, national recording artist Git Shorty sits quietly in the corner of a stained booth drinking coffee from a delicate ceramic cup, 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 ...

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