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Guy Schwartz' songs have been recorded by Gloria Edwards, Relayer, The Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra, Kinky Friedman, Hamilton Loomis, Anthony Moore, Father's Chief, Z-Rocks, Heath Spencer Philip, Opie Hendrix, Little Joe Washington & The New Jack Hippies.
Guy Schwartz' bands have performed with Nickle Creek, David Lindley, U2, Eric Johnson, Muddy Waters, Duran Duran, Huey Lewis & The News, Todd Rundgren, Carolyn Wonderland, Van Gunn, The Thieves, ZZTop... Nashville's Billy Block (Western Beat) called Guy Schwartz & The New Jack Hippies "Texas' premiere blues rock hippie jam band!"
Guy Schwartz has acted as musical director for 'Smokin' Joe's Roadhouse', The Wandering Poets, Gloria Edwards, 'Poetry in Reverse', and ABC Radio. Guy has performed as a former/current sideman for Lightning Hopkins, Blaze Foley, Buck Jones, Milton Hopkins, Gloria Edwards, B.W. Stephenson, Jimmy Reed, Lionel Hampton, The Monkees, Chuck Berry, Roy Head, Sonny James, Little Joe Washington, Trudy Lynn, Fever Tree, Opie Hendrix and many more...
Guy Schwartz has recently produced tracks for Don Walsh, Gloria Edwards, Kool B, Little Joe Washington, The New Jack Hippies, Buster Pennington, The Drug Truth Network, SOUTH BY DUE EAST, Sage & Woodway, Hippies.TV, MArlo Blue and Opie Hendrix.
Guy Schwartz has directed concert documentaries on Billy Joe Shaver, Mr.Scarface and Carolyn Wonderland, and has produced (w.Marlo Blue) 'Hippies.TV' a series of over 70 short films about Texas, USA artists & musicians. Guy has just returned home to Houston, Texas, USA, from working in the southeast with Sirius Hippies Productions, editing films from SOUTH BY DUE EAST 2007 & putting together 'Guy Schwartz' Video Guide To JAMS & OPEN MICS in the Greater Metropolitan Houston Area!'. Recent feature length releases include 'Billy Joe Shaver - North Carolina', SOUTH BY DUE EAST 2006 PERFORMANCES, the Wonderland documentary and BluesGuy's Rock-n-Roll House Party.
Guy Schwartz' essays and columns are read by thousands of subscribers to Texas Music News and Guy's vast email newsletter list. Canadian rock-critic Jason Gross (rockcritic.com) listed Guy's Lionel Hampton Tribute as one of the top twenty music essays of 2002. A compilation of these essays in book form will be released in 2008. Guy's 1999 'how-to manual, 'Keeping The Band Together', published by Sage & Woodway Publishers, is obsolete and out of print.
