David Kearny,AKA Guitar Shorty,was born in Texas and raised in Florida,where as a teenager,was a student by day,professional musician by night. By the age of sixteen he was playing with Ray Charles. Moving to New Orleans he fronted the house band at the legendary Dew Drop Inn where he played with such greats as T Bone Walker,Big Joe Turner and Little Richard. At the ripe old age of nineteen,he went out on the road with Sam Cooke,winding up on the West coast. It was in Los Angels where he met his wife Marcia, and in the bargain got a brother-in-law named Jimi Hendrix! Shorty and Jimi were friends until Jimi's death. Shorty,a W.C. Handy award winner, won a
Blues Music Award for Contemporary Blues Album of the Year for 2007's "We The People" album. He will be appearing at Phoenix blues mainstay The Rhythm Room on Friday,July 9th at 8PM, to support his new album "Bare Knuckle". Tickets are available from Ticketmaster and directly from The Rhythm Room.
http://www.rhythmroom.com/
http://www.guitarshorty.org/
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