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Andrew Daly

“Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page didn’t think a Strat could play the blues. But they all went to buy Strats after they saw me”: Buddy Guy on why the Strat is damn right a blues guitar

Buddy Guy onstage in dungarees playing his cream Fender Stratocaster.

It is hard to believe it, but back in the ‘60s the Fender Stratocaster was not considered a great blues guitar.

Then along came Buddy Guy, switching his Guild semihollows for a solidbody that could be thrown around and take the abuse that comes with working with the greatest showman in the blues.

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