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Date: 31 July 1936
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George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is an exponent of Chicago blues who has influenced generations of guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr., and John Mayer. In the 1960s, Guy played with Muddy Waters as a session guitarist at Chess Records and began a musical partnership with blues harp virtuoso Junior Wells.
Guy has won nine Grammy Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honors. Guy was ranked 27th in Rolling Stone magazine's 2023 list of greatest guitarists of all time. His song "Stone Crazy" was ranked 78th in the Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". Clapton once described him as "the best guitar player alive". In 1999, Guy wrote the book Damn Right I've Got the Blues, with Donald Wilcock. His autobiography, When I Left Home: My Story, was published in 2012.
Les mer...30. juli 1936 var en torsdag under stjernetegnet til ♌. Det var 211 dagen i året. President i USA var Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Date: 31 July 1936
By The Associated Press
insurgents prepare for advance on Madrid; claim capture of Valencia, Madrid denies it; govt reoccupies Tolosa; govt troops reptd slain in ambush near Saragossa; rebel radio station at Seville declares Madrid govt has asked Franco for truce to negotiate surrender of capital; rebels regain Oyarzun; Gen Carresco executed with 20 officers of Loyola garrison by Leftists; Leftists set up govts for Guipuzcoa and San Sebastian provinces; rebel attack on Irun imminent; Huelva and Ayamonte occupied by rebels; London hears of insurgent successes; Queipo de Llano announces formation of fliers into Battalion of Death; rebels claim defeat of govt troops in Galicia
Date: 31 July 1936
By WILLIAM P. CARNEYWireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES
William CARNEYWireless
reptd under guard on liner, Uruguay
Date: 31 July 1936
By The Associated Press
Royal Canadian Henley Regatta
Date: 31 July 1936
By ARTHUR J. DALEYWireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Arthur DALEYWireless
elected
Date: 31 July 1936
Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES
comment by W Runciman
Date: 31 July 1936
By EDNA FERBERCopyright, 1936, by The New York Times Company and NANA, Inc
Edna FERBERCopyright
Dispatch on civil war in Spain
Date: 31 July 1936
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Denies rept of having MS Nunoca in tow