· When I Left Home: My Story: Authors: Buddy Guy, David Ritz: Contributor: David Ritz: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Da Capo Press, ISBN: /5(3). When I left Home is written with honesty and in way one would imagine Guy telling you the stories over coffee. It is not a sex and drugs story that many musicians bios have turned into but a captivating story of the life of poor sharecroppers and a burning desire to play the Blues, a journey to Chicago, the stories of the Blues greats who played there and eventually the success this great Bluesman www.doorway.rus: When I left home book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers/5(2).
Buy When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 4 editions - starting at $ Shop now. When I Left Home: My Story. (1, ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. English. By (author) Buddy Guy, By (author) David Ritz. Share. According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and. When I Left Home, the memoir of legendary blue guitarist Buddy Guy, with support from noted writer David Ritz, traces the musician from his sharecropper roots in Lettsworth, Louisiana, in a shack with no water or light, to his first strummings on a battered guitar with two strings and his initial exposure to the blues overheard when a neighbor played the classic Lonnie Johnson's tune.
“Buddy Guy is a stellar storyteller The guitarist relates the fascinating story of his life in the well-organized, speedily read When I Left Home Guy weighs in on the blues experience, good and bad, maintaining a warmth of spirit Guy gives his two cents on blues Chicago without lapsing into romanticizing Buddy Guy’s smile on the cover of When I Left Home is every but a lasting image for modern blues.”. When I Left Home: My Story: Authors: Buddy Guy, David Ritz: Contributor: David Ritz: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Da Capo Press, ISBN: , Length: pages. Buddy Guy has lived a very interesting life and When I Left Home chronicles a great deal of it, from his childhood and the infamous story of how he made his first guitar to his long years as a Chicago session musician.
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