né
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'' Harry Fisher Henderson; October 20, 1943 – March 9, 2012), better known as "Bugs" Henderson, was an American
blues
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guitarist. He was popular in Europe and from the 1970s, was based in Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, where he was known as a local blues guitar legend.
Henderson was born in
Palm Springs, California
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and spent his early life in Tyler, Texas, where he formed a band called the Sensores at age 16, and later joined
Mouse and the Traps
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. In Dallas–Fort Worth during the early 1970s, he was lead guitarist for the blues/rock band Nitzinger before forming the Shuffle Kings and later a band that was
eponymously
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named. Henderson played with blues musicians such as
B. B. King
Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimm ...
,
Eric Clapton
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stephen Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Although his mainstream career spanned only seven years, ...
, as well as with rhythm and blues saxophonist Don Wise and rock guitarist Ted Nugent.
Henderson died just four days after a benefit concert in his name from complications of
liver cancer
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Bnois King
Bnois King (born January 21, 1943) (pronounced "buh-noise")
Discography
with Nitzinger
*1972 – ''One Foot in History''
as The Bugs Henderson Group
*1978 – ''At Last-Live''
*1981 – ''Still Flyin
*1989 – ''Backbop''
as Bugs Henderson
*1982 – ''Back Bop! The Unreleased '82 Sessions''
*1993 – ''Years in the Jungle''
*1995 – ''Daredevils of the Red Guitar''
with The Stratoblasters
*1986 – ''Texan Eagles''
as Bugs Henderson & The Shuffle Kings
*1992 – ''Gitarbazndrumz'' (Live)
*1993 – ''American Music''
*1995 – ''That's the Truth'' (Live)
*1996 – ''Four Tens Strike Again''
*1997 – ''Henderson & Jones'' (Live)
*1998 – ''Have Blues...Must Rock''
*2000 – ''Call of the Wild'' (Live at the Meisenfrei)
*2001 – ''Adventures of the Shuffle Kings''
*2003 – ''We're a Texas Band – Live in Germany''
*2004 – ''Stormy Love''
*2008 – ''Blue Music''
*2009 - Vienna Calling
with R. Buchanan, F. King, T. Nugent, J. Winter
*1997 – ''Legendary Jams 1976–1980''
Compilations
*1998 – ''Heartbroke Again'', Blue Flame, BFBL001
*2006 – ''Electric Snow "The Best Of"''