Bill Text: IL HR0515 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares November 24, 2023 as Buddy Guy Day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-16 - Referred to Rules Committee [HR0515 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HR0515-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION | ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, Buddy Guy was born to a sharecropper's family | ||||||
| 3 | near the town of Lettsworth, Louisiana in 1936 and began | ||||||
| 4 | playing guitar at the age of seven after building his own | ||||||
| 5 | guitar; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Buddy Guy moved to Chicago in 1957, gaining | ||||||
| 7 | recognition for a fiery and flashy guitar playing style that | ||||||
| 8 | drew the attention of other blues players and songwriters, | ||||||
| 9 | including Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Buddy Guy began working as a guitarist for | ||||||
| 11 | Chicago's Chess Records in 1960, playing a pivotal role on | ||||||
| 12 | albums for other artists, including Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, | ||||||
| 13 | Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter, among others, while also | ||||||
| 14 | launching his own career as a solo artist, which developed | ||||||
| 15 | into extensive tours around the world; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, Buddy Guy opened his own nightclub, Buddy Guy's | ||||||
| 17 | Legends, in Chicago in 1989, where he has played annual | ||||||
| 18 | residencies and acted as a host for other blues musicians; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, Buddy Guy was inducted into the Blues Hall of | ||||||
| 20 | Fame in 1985 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005; he was | ||||||
| 21 | awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2003 and was a Kennedy | ||||||
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| 1 | Center honoree in 2012; that same year, he performed the song | ||||||
| 2 | Sweet Home Chicago at the White House, where he was joined by | ||||||
| 3 | President Obama for the chorus; he won the Grammy Award for | ||||||
| 4 | lifetime achievement in 2015; therefore, be it
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| 5 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 6 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 7 | we declare November 24, 2023 as Buddy Guy Day in the State of | ||||||
| 8 | Illinois; and be it further
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