We are proud to announce the Blues Foundation has awarded Guitar Shorty the 2007 Blues Music Award Winner - Contemporary Blues Album for "We the People."

Guitarist/vocalist and blues legend Guitar Shorty is a man of the people. With the ability to pack clubs and festivals as one of the most celebrated live performers (even before he had any nationally available recordings) and now among the top-selling recording artists in the blues world, he is clearly the people's choice.

Between his blistering, rocked-out guitar work and his fierce, soulful vocals, the power of his music is unmatched, and the perceptive and meaningful lyrics unique among modern bluesmen.

Credited with influencing both Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy, Shorty has been electrifying audiences for five decades with his supercharged live shows and his incendiary recordings, beginning in 1957 with a Willie Dixon-produced single on the Cobra label.

Shorty is a proud member of the prestigious Alligator blues label, Shorty's latest album is We the People. Tracks include: We The People, What Good Is Life? I Got Your Number, Runaway Train, Down That Road Again, Fine Cadillac, Can't Get Enough, A Hurt So Old, Who Needs It? Blues In My Blood, Cost Of Livin', and Sonic Boom.

 

Also available through Alligator Records is Watch Your Back. Tracks include: Old School, Story Of My Life, I’m Gonna Leave You, What She Don’t Know, I’ve Been Working, Get Busy, Let My Guitar Do The Talking, It Ain’t The Fall That Kills You, A Little Less Conversation, and Right Tool For The Job.