Guy Schwartz & the New Jack Hippies
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"Texas Premiere Blues Rock Hippie Jam Band"
-Billy Block, Nashville
"Guy Schwartz & los New Jack Hippies son, realamente muy buenos. Casi como los Rolling Stones, minimo. Suenan claro & preciso!"
-D. Durantes, Canamo Magazine, Madrid
"Bon vivant guitarist-producer GuySchwartz has been an integral part of our music scene so long he should be called the Godfather"
-William Michael Smith, The Houston Press
"Guy Schwartz and the New Jack Hippies showcased an easy, effortless vibe peppered with rock and blues licks (and) attracted one of the early day's largest crowds."
-Joey Guerra, The Houston Chronicle
"The Hippies were the surprise of the show. Everyone grooved!"
-Darren Fisher, WonderJam, Amsterdam
About
Songwriter
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.
Bandleader
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, many more... Nashville's Billy Block (Western Beat) called Guy Schwartz & The New Jack Hippies "Texas' premiere blues rock hippie jam band!"
Musician
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 supplied voices and instrumental parts for video games, including the slide guitar intro on 'Big Mother Truckers' and as a voice actor in 'KOHAN:Kings Of War'.
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, John Lee Hooker, Sonny James, Little Joe Washington, Trudy Lynn, Fever Tree, Opie Hendrix and many more...
Producer
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.
Film Maker
Guy Schwartz has directed concert documentaries on Billy Joe Shaver, Mr.Scarface, Teresa James and Carolyn Wonderland, and has produced (w.Marlo Blue) 'Hippies.TV' & 'SOUTH BY DUE EAST TELEVISION', two TV series which have included over 90 short films about music from Texas, and from Texas musicians on the road. Guy has just returned home to Houston, Texas, USA, from working in the west with Sirius Hippies Productions, editing films from SOUTH BY DUE EAST 2009 and creating episodes of Guy's new musical reality TV series, 'Guy Schwartz' Road Journal.In 2009, 'Guy Schwartz' Video Guide To JAMS & OPEN MICS in the Greater Metropolitan Houston Area!' won an award from HMSTV as top community programming!. Recent feature length releases include 'Billy Joe Shaver - North Carolina','SOUTH BY DUE EAST 2006 - PERFORMANCES', Carolyn Wonderland-Bloodless Revolution In Amsterdam' and 'BluesGuy's Rock-n-Roll House Party'.
Author
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 may be released in 2009. Guy's 1999 'how-to manual, 'Keeping The Band Together', published by Sage & Woodway Publishers, is obsolete and out of print.
Always looking for musicians, promoters, film makers, fans and friends who can create opportunities to play with me at shows in their states and provinces. Writers with screenplays. Patrons and friends who can offer a place to stay on the road or host a house concert.
