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Tier 2 · legacy legend
Phil Guy
Person · male · United States · Lettsworth · born 1940 · died 2008 · recording since 1982
American blues guitarist (1940–2008)
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Also known as フィル・ガイ
Timeline
7 events▣ Album 4◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1
1940s
1980s
· Debut release
Debut release: The Red Hot Blues of Phil Guy
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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1990s
2000s
Biography
English biography197 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1360114556
Biography
Phil Guy (April 28, 1940 – August 20, 2008) was an American blues guitarist. He was the younger brother of blues guitarist Buddy Guy. Phil and Buddy Guy were frequent collaborators and contribute both guitar and vocal performances on many of each other's albums.
Biography
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 1967s and 1990s, branching out into soul and fonk. 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.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 8 | 81.1th |
| Studio albums | 4 | 82.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 7 | 82.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 24 | 53.9th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (8 release groups · 4 studio albums)
Albums · 4
1982 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 36:23
A1Love Is Like Quicksand5:10A2Blues With a Feeling6:25A3Skin & Bones4:20A4Winehead3:50B1Texas Flood5:53B2Red Dress4:20B3Garbage Man Blues6:251983 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 38:13
A1Bad Luck Boy9:05A2Money4:05A3Breaking Out On Top7:22B1Cold Feeling8:53B2Mellow Down5:52B3Comin' On2:561999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:09:12
1Lonesome Blues7:192Fixin' to Die8:043Help Wanted Blues7:074Is It Him or Me?5:155I'm Leavin' Right Now6:216Last Time8:0574 A.M. Blues4:128Say What You Mean4:019Have Mercy7:0110Last of the Blues Singers6:0811You at My Door5:392006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 58:35
1He's My Blues Brother7:212On Our Front Porch5:153Still Here8:514Too Young to Die3:585I Just Can't Stop4:146Back to Louisiana4:097Phil's the Guy3:238I'm Worried4:359Got My Mind on Lovin' You4:2210I Feel Sexy12:27
Album · 4
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | It's a Real Mutha Fucka!Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracks · 1:12:081Tina Nu7:24 2Steppin' Out5:37 3Where Can I Go6:30 4Professor's Boogie7:05 5Good Thing6:43 6Stone Crazy5:30 7It's a Real Mutha Fucka5:40 8Born to Get Down6:45 9I Once Was a Gambler5:08 10Love Is Like Quicksand4:01 11Texas Flood7:04 12Tina Nu4:41 | Compilation | 1985 | |
| 1988 | All Star Chicago Blues SessionSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks · 1:03:551Breakin' Out On Top7:26 2Texas Flood5:46 3Blues With A Feeling6:22 4Bad Dreams4:11 5Ice Around My Heart8:55 6Bad Luck Boy9:11 7Wine Head Woman3:53 8Skin & Bones, Money8:25 9Love Is Like Quicksand5:04 10Garbage Man Blues4:42 | Live | 1988 | |
| 1995 | Breaking Out on TopSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracks · 1:11:331Gambler5:09 2Quicksand4:01 3Texas Flood7:05 4Tina Nu7:16 5Where Can I Go6:35 6Professor's Boogie7:05 7Good Thing6:47 8Stone Crazy5:27 9Breaking Out on Top7:25 10Blues With a Feeling6:21 11Wine Head3:50 12Garbage Man Blues4:32 | Compilation | 1995 | |
| 2002 | The Last of the Big Time SpendersSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 8 tracks · 1:12:231Help Me8:20 2Oh, Darling7:07 3Texas Flood10:38 4Killing Floor5:44 5Don't Even Know My Name10:14 6Good Time Charlie10:41 7Five Long Years9:18 8Can't Stand It (When You Touch Me)10:21 | Live | 2002 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Phil Guy head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 8 | 81.1th |
| Studio albums | 4 | 82.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 7 | 82.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 24 | 53.9th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phil_Guy.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/84d96f54-ad7c-4806-838c-7195b8d1ab63discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/84d96f54-ad7c-4806-838c-7195b8d1ab63core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7181945genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7181945seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Guybiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Guy
Why this artist is in the database
- List of blues musicians — rank #77
| 1940 | 2008 | Louisiana | Electric blues |
Tier rule: genre canon: blues
Image: Milwphil · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q7181945 · MusicBrainz: 84d96f54-ad7c-4806-838c-7195b8d1ab63
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