Birth name Philip Guy Years active 1980s–2008 Parents Isabell Guy, Sam Guy Instruments Electric guitar Role Guitarist | Occupation(s) Musician Name Phil Guy Genres Blues
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Born April 28, 1940
Lettsworth, Louisiana, United States ( 1940-04-28 ) Died August 20, 2008, Chicago Heights, Illinois, United States Albums The Last of the Big Time Spenders Siblings Buddy Guy, Sam Guy, Jr., Annie Mae Guy, Fannie Mae Guy Similar People Buddy Guy, Johnny Dyer, Finis Tasby, Pepe Ahlqvist, AC Reed | ||
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Phil Guy (April 28, 1940 – August 20, 2008) was an American blues guitarist. He was the younger brother of Buddy Guy.
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Guy was born in Lettsworth, Louisiana. He played with the harmonica player Raful Neal for ten years in the Baton Rouge area. He then relocated to Chicago in 1969, where he joined his brother's band, at the time when his brother was becoming known as an innovator in blues guitar. The brothers collaborated extensively with Junior Wells in the 1970s.
Guy recorded a number of albums under his own name in the 1980s and 1990s, branching out into soul and funk. He can be seen in his self-described hippie phase in the film Festival Express, in which the Guy band tours southern Canada by train in 1970 with the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and the Band. Guy worked with Maurice John Vaughn in 1979, notably converting him into a blues musician.
Guy died of prostate cancer on August 20, 2008, in Chicago Heights, Illinois, just a few months after diagnosis of the disease.