Festival frequent flyer Buddy Guy is also one of Rolling Stone's top 100 guitarists of all time.
See if you can’t build a beer game around these Santa Cruz Blues Festival.html fun facts.
Regulars
The BluesFest’s most frequent guests
Coco Montoya (12 yrs)
Tommy Castro (7 yrs)
Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers (6 yrs)
Jimmy Thackery (6 yrs)
Chris Cain (6 yrs)
The Boneshakers (5 yrs )
The Soul Drivers (4 yrs)
Buddy Guy (4 yrs)
Jonny Lang (4 yrs)
Shredders
Performers from past Santa Cruz Blues Festivals named in Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, by rank, followed by year or years they played at the festival
6. BB King (2006, 2009)
16. Derek Trucks (2010)
23. Buddy Guy (1994, 1998, 2004, 2010)
35. John Lee Hooker (1996)
65. Hubert Sumlin (2008)
89. Bonnie Raitt (2008)
They’re Playing Stratocasters in Heaven Now
BluesFest greats who’ve passed
Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924 – Dec.19, 1997)
Charles Brown (Sept.13, 1922 – Jan. 21, 1999)
Clarence Hollimon (Oct. 24, 1937 – April 23, 2000)
John Lee Hooker (Aug. 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001)
Ray Charles (Sept. 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004)
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown (April 18, 1924 — Sept. 10, 2005)
Snooky Pryor (Sept.15, 1921 – Oct. 18, 2006)
Koko Taylor (Sept. 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009)
Solomon Burke (March 21, 1940 – Oct. 10, 2010)
Pinetop Perkins (July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011)
Willie “Big Eyes” Smith (Jan. 19, 1936 – Sept. 16, 2011)
Howard Tate (Aug. 13, 1939 – Dec. 2, 2011)
Hubert Sumlin (Nov. 16, 1931 – Dec. 4, 2011)
Etta James (Jan. 25, 1938 – Jan. 20, 2012)
—Compiled by SCW staff statistician Lily Stoicheff
