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Guitar Shorty

Guitar Shorty, born in Houston, Texas in 1939 as David Kearney, began playing guitar at an early age with influences from B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, and Earl Hooker. By 17, he was playing regularly in clubs in the Tampa, Florida area. During the 1960s, he married Jimi Hendrix's stepsister and lived in the Seattle area. His career has been full of ups and downs with one notable down as an appearance on The Gong Show where he won first place as he played "They Call Me Guitar Shorty" while balanced on his head...

This is definitely an act I would love to catch live at some point :)