Jimi Hendrix Brother-in-Law, Guitar Shorty Leaps Into Green Parrot
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Jimi Hendrix Brother-in-Law, Guitar Shorty Leaps Into Green Parrot
Guitarist/vocalist and blues legend Guitar Shorty will appear at The
Green Parrot
Shorty’s latest CD, “We the People.”
was recently awarded the prestigious 2007 Blues Foundation (W. C.
Handy) Blues Music Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
Living Blues called Shorty “a blues rock original [who plays]
screaming, empowered guitar and sings with streetwise defiance.”
Credited with influencing both Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy, Shorty has
been electrifying audiences for five decades with his supercharged
live shows and his incendiary recordings, beginning in 1957 with a
Willie Dixon-produced single on the Cobra label.
During the ’60s, he married Jimi Hendrix’s stepsister and lived in
Seattle, where the rock guitar god caught Shorty’s act (and presumably
learned a thing or two about inciting a throng) whenever he came off
the road.
When he’s not turning somersaults, doing backwards 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 live he’ll be, at The Green Parrot Bar, on Sunday and Monday.
His penchant for stage gymnastics was inspired by the flamboyant Guitar
Slim, whose wild antics are legendary. Shorty once competed on Chuck
Barris’s zany The Gong Show, where he
copped first prize for delivering “They Call Me Guitar Shorty” while
balanced on his noggin
During the ’60s, he married Jimi Hendrix’s stepsister and lived in
Seattle, where the rock guitar god caught Shorty’s act (and presumably
learned a thing or two about inciting a throng) whenever he came off
the road. There will certainly be incited throngs on Sunday and Monday at The
Green Parrot Bar, your Southernmost Center for Culture at the corner
of Whitehead and Southard Streets.
