Eddie "Guitar" Burns

Eddie "Guitar" Burns (February 8, 1928 – December 12, 2012) was an American Detroit blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer and songwriter.

Biography Burns was born in Belzoni, Mississippi. His father was a sharecropper who performed as a singer in medicine shows, but Burns was raised mainly by his grandparents. He was self-taught in playing the harmonica and made his first guitar. By the following year Burns was playing guitar accompaniment on recordings by Hooker. Now permanently billed as Eddie "Guitar" Burns, he appeared on Hooker's album The Real Folk Blues (1966).

A song he wrote, "Orange Driver", was recorded by the J. Geils Band for its album Hotline (1975). In August 1976, Burns performed his song "Bottle Up & Go" live on the British television program So It Goes.

In 1989 Burns released the album Detroit for Blue Suit Records, in which his abilities on both guitar and harmonica were displayed.

Discography

Studio albums Bottle Up & Go (1972), Action Records (under licence from Big Bear Records) Detroit Blackbottom (1975), Big Bear Records Lonesome Feeling (1986), Black & Blue Records BB-455.2 (recorded in the Netherlands) Detroit (1990), Blue Suit Records Snake Eyes (2002), Delmark Records (with Jimmy Burns) Second Degree Burns (2005), Blue Suit Records

Compilations Blues For Big Town (1985), Chess/P-Vine Records Treat Me Like I Treat You (1986), Moonshine Records Detroit Blues 1950–1951 (1987), Krazy Kat Records I Love To Jump The Boogie (2021), Jasmine Records JASMCD-3186

Singles "Notoriety Woman" (1948), Palda Records "Hello Miss Jessie Lee" (1953), DeLuxe Records "Biscuit Baking Mama" (1954), Checker Records "Treat Me Like I Treat You" (1957), Chess Records "Orange Driver" (1961), Harvey Records "The Thing to Do" (1961), Harvey Records "(Don't Be) Messing with My Bread" (1962), Harvey Records (with Little Sonny) "Wig Wearin' Woman" (1965), Von Records "I Am Leaving" (1965), Von Records "Don't Even Try It" (1982), Red Bird Records

Appearances With John Lee Hooker The Real Folk Blues (Chess Records, 1966) More Real Folk Blues: The Missing Album (Chess Records, 1966 [rel. 1991])

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