Scott Holt learned from the best: inspired by Hendrix, mentored by Buddy Guy
One of Buddy Guy’s most memorable performances is on the song “First Time I Met the Blues.” It’s a life-changing supernatural being in Guy’s telling, as scary as it is inspiring.
Scott Holt, who will play Jan. 21 at Buddy Guy’s Legends, can relate. In his late teens while growing up in Tennessee, he became obsessed with the guitar and Jimi Hendrix. After six months of playing all day, every day, he saw Hendrix’s inspiration, Buddy Guy, in concert. When he met Guy later that night, Holt couldn’t even speak.
“My father took me to his show and afterward he was talking to Buddy, explaining my music obsession to him; he had to do all the talking because I was just starstruck,” Holt recalls with a laugh. “But Buddy invites me to his hotel room the next day, and there we were sitting across from each other playing guitars and him telling me stories about Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters. I didn’t understand the depths of what was happening, but it was the beginning of what has been a 20-year friendship.”
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