there's another 'Guitar Shorty' (currently active)
by the real name of David William Kearney

Guitar Shorty LPs / CDs

#	year of release	title	label # / notes
		Hootin' Owl - I Love That Woman (AHO 3659) # - Wine Drinking Baby (AHO3660) rec. 1952; John Henry Fortescue, voc, g	Savoy unissued # Flyright CD 45 (1992)
1	1971	Guitar Shorty: Carolina Slide Guitar - I'm Goin Home - Drinkin Wine - My Mind Never Changed - Near The Cross - Hoogle-De-Doo - Goin Down In Georgia - Somebody Called My Name - I Got Troubles On My Mind - Jesus On The Main Line - Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down - Little School Girl rec. 1970/1971 at Rocky Mount by Danny McLean	notes by Bruce Bastin Flyright LP 500 Flyright discography
2	1973	Carolina Country Blues Henry Johnson - Crow Jane Guitar Shorty - Hold On Baby Henry Johnson - My Mother's Grave Must Be Found Peg Leg Sam - Fox Chase Willie Trice - Baby, Baby Henry Johnson - Hey, Noah - Had A Little Woman Henry Johnson - Union County Slide (instr.) Willie Trice - Shine On Henry Johnson - Step It Up And Went Guitar Shorty - Scat Boogie Henry Johnson - Me And My Dog Willie Trice - Poor Boy Long Ways From Home Elester Anderson - Further Down The Road Henry Johnson - Sittin' Down Thinkin' rec. March 1973 live at Chapel Hill Festival, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by Pete Lowry	Flyright LP 505 Flyright discography
3	1973	Another Man Done Gone Baby Tate - You Can Always Tell # Jack Harp - After A While Guitar Shorty - Mother's Dead And Gone Willie Rockmore & Bruce Upshaw - Got The Stuff Right Here Buddy Boy Jenkins - Greasy Greens Henry Johnson - Rock Tonight Baby Willie Moore - Born In The Country Jack Harp - You Got To Move Elbert Freeman & Nathaniel Ford - Worried Blues Baby Tate with Peg Leg Sam - Bad Gasoline # Jack Harp - Glory Glory Hallelujah Willie Moore - Goin' Away To Leave You Bud Grant - Rattlesnake Moan Bill Bryant - Black & Tan Ed Green South Carolina Blues Dave Dickerson - When The War is Over Henry Johnson - Can't Keep From Cryin' Elbert Freeman & Nathaniel Ford - John Henry - Old Hen Cackled	contains booklet Flyright LP 528 Flyright discography
4	1973	Guitar Shorty: Alone In His Field - Easter Blues (Fortescue) - Boogie, Now (Fortescue) - Don't Cry Baby (Fortescue) - Like A Damn Fool (The Bear Blues) (Fortescue) - Jessie Jones (Fortescue) - Whistling Blues (Fortescue) - Near The Cross (Fortescue) - Pull Your Dress Down (Fortescue) - Working Hard (Fortescue) - Now Tell Me Baby (Fortescue) - Shorty's Talking Boogie (Fortescue) rec. 1972/73 by Pete Lowry Pete Lowry in his 1993 additional liner notes: "There is enough material for at least one more quality release."	notes by William Bentley Trix 3306 notes by William Bentley and Peter B. Lowry = Trix CD 3306 (1993) Trix discography
5	1992	Play My Juke Box East Coast Blues 1943 - 1954 Boy Green - Play My Juke-Box - A&B Blues Curley Weaver - Some Rainy Day Marylin Scott - I Got What My Daddy Likes Skoodle-Dum-Doo & Sheffield - West Kinney Street Blues - Tampa Blues - Broom Street Blues - Gas Station Blues Hank Kilroy - Harlem Women - Awful Shame Hootin' Owl (Guitar Shorty) # - I Love That Woman (AHO 3659) Big Chief Ellis - Dices Dices Julius King - One O'Clock Boogie Robert Lee Westmoreland - Hello Central, Please Give Me 209 - Good Looking Woman Blues Jelly Bean & Guitar Slim - Humming Bird Blues Sunny Jones - Leaving Home Blues - Don't Want Pretty Women Elder R. Wilson & Family - Better Get Ready Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly - I've Been Dreaming Gabriel Brown - The Jinx Is On Me Tarheel Slim - Too Much Competition # 'Hootin' Owl' track rec. 1952 for Savoy; previously unissued	' Flyright FLY CD 45 www.interstate-music.co.uk
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, p. 187-188
- Peter Guralnick: Feel Like Going Home. Portraits in Rock & Rock 'n' Roll.- London/New York/Cologne/Sidney (Omnibus Press) 1978
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York 1987, p. 180
- Jürgen Henning: Guitar Shorty - North Carolina Slide Guitar.- Blues Power Magazin 4 (1993), p. 20 - 22
- "Guitar Shorty" An Appreciation and Memory by Valerie Wilmer.- Blues Unlimited 120 (1976), p. 20 - 21
- own record collection
- eBay auctions
- other internet resources

left column picture: Guitar Shorty and Willie Johnson, near Elm City, North Carolina, 1972 (from: Valerie Wilmer: The Face Of Black Music.- New York 1976, no p. )

Guitar Shorty, Willie Johnson and friends near Elm City, North Carolina, 1972
source: Guralnick 1978, p. 2/3
photographer: Valerie Wilmer
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Guitar Shorty (John Henry Fortescue); from back cover of Trix CD 3306
photographer: Pete Lowry

 
"Guitar Shorty" An Appreciation and Memory by Valerie Wilmer
Blues Unlimited 120 (1976), p. 20 - 21

 
Jürgen Henning: Guitar Shorty - North Carolina Slide Guitar
Blues Power Magazin 4 (1993), p. 20 - 22

The articles above are 'published' here for private research only. While of historical interest, they may contain factual errors only revealed by later research. Be advised that more recent reference works should be consulted regarding factual points such as spelling of names, dates of birth, dates of recordings.