Guitar Shorty
Still full of energy, 72-year-old Guitar Shorty has been at the blues biz for a long time. But he keeps his material relevant. “Please Mr. President, lay some stimulus on me,” he belts out on his latest Alligator Records CD, “Bare Knuckle,” which is full of fiery guitar licks. Always an animated live performer, Shorty inspired his in-law Jimi Hendrix with his onstage antics back in the late 1950s, and won a prize on “The Gong Show” in the mid-1970s. Tom Surowicz