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Article: Guitar Shorty finds Texas more to his musical taste.
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- AZ Daily Star
- Article date:
- June 14, 2007
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Byline: Gerald M. Gay
Jun. 14--Guitar Shorty was hearing the same thing from just about everyone he knew, including his management, record label and booking agents.
Their message: Get out of California.
"Promoters would call and tell me, 'Shorty, we love you, but we have to bring you from hell and back to get you here,' " the blues musician said in a phone interview last week. "I liked California, but it wasn't great for the business I am in. I needed to move if I wanted to keep busy."
Shorty now resides in Harlingen, Texas, an area of the country more conducive to his raw guitar play, regular touring and his roadhouse blues-rock ...