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Buddy Whittington
Performing with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in Pistoia, Italy
Background information
Born
(1956-12-28) 28 December 1956 (age 67) Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Genres
Blues, southern rock, blue-eyed soul
Occupation(s)
Musician, songwriter
Instrument(s)
Guitar, vocals,
Years active
1970s–present
Website
Buddy Whittington.com
Musical artist
Buddy Whittington (born December 28, 1956) is an American guitarist. He began playing the guitar inspired by his sister's records of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton. At the age of 14 he was already a part of the Dallas/Fort Worth music scene and playing regularly in the clubs along Jacksboro Highway. While attending L.D. Bell High School, Whittington played in a band called Short Change, which opened for Point Blank, a band that he would later join, replacing guitar player Kim Davis.[1] During the early 1980s, he formed and sang with his own band, The Sidemen.[2] In 1991, they opened for John Mayall and when Coco Montoya left the Bluesbreakers in 1993, Mayall called him to take his place in the band. In Mayall's band Whittington sang occasionally and contributed to songwriting. When, after fifteen years, Mayall disbanded the Bluesbreakers, Whittington continued to gig in Texas, but also joined forces with Roger Cotton and Pete Stroud, who had toured with Mayall as part of Peter Green's band.
In 2008, Whittington released his first solo album and he continues to tour regularly in the UK and throughout Europe, though Roger Cotton has left the band, which now works as a threesome featuring Darby Todd on drums. In August 2013, Whittington sat in with his old boss John Mayall at the Bedford Blues Festival in Bedford, Texas. Whittington lives in Hurst, Texas with his family.
Whittington usually plays a 1963 Stratocaster plugged into a Dr. Z amplifier. He also plays a Lentz guitar modeled partially after the Fender Telecaster.
^"Hall of Fame, 2011 Inductees". Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
^Skelly, Richard. "Biography: Buddy Whittington". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
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