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About Me

I'm the luckiest boy in the world. I still get to be a musician, bandleader and film-maker on a full-time basis. Lucky to be loved, too! I'll tell you more, but (assuming the flash player will work on your browser) let's let the music speak before we get into the words, video and touring info!
VIDEO - Online Acoustic Concert!
VIDEO - My band @ BluesGuy's Birthday Jam #8!
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 2008 & 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'.
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 2008. Guy's 1999 'how-to manual, 'Keeping The Band Together', published by Sage & Woodway Publishers, is obsolete and out of print.
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:


GENERAL
You and your friends!
MORE SPECIFIC
Musicians with talents and ideas that inspire me to collaborate! Musicians 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.

My Blog

*RADIO TODAY*Hippies.TV TONIGHT*WEEKEND MUSIC CALENDAR

*RADIO TODAY*Hippies.TV TONIGHT*WONDERLAND, NY DOLLS, & HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOGMAN!We're on the radio and internet in an hour (KPFT-FM90.1 and www.kpft.org) with live recorded music from SOUTH BY DUE EAST....
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:08:00 GMT

Brave New World

Hi, ya'll! So - I'm wondering if and how I'm going to adjust to being a normal human being. I know I haven't written since SOUTH BY DUE EAST 2009. Sorry about that! Part of the reason I haven...
Posted by on Sun, 31 May 2009 12:58:00 GMT

Great Review!

GUY SCHWARTZChameleon v3.5Guy Schwartz, the leader of The New Jack Hippies, has long been recognized as one of Texas most engaging and prolific songwritiers. It is a reputation that can only be enhanc...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:46:00 GMT

SOUTH BY DUE EAST 2009 - scheduleupdate 3.8.09

    3.207pm     stedman gray7.45pm  dirtymind8.30pm  D.R.U.M.9pm     COMEDY @ SBDE10pm    free radicals10.45pm Yoko Mono11.30pm Brad Absher12.15   Eddie Phillips1am     Osirus    3.213      (Dr. Zooma...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:05:00 GMT

Back In The Saddle Again

----------GUY SCHWARTZ' ROAD JOURNAL -LIVE MUSIC FROM THE ROADGuerilla Performances and Hotel Room fun!----------Many of my Houston/Galveston area friends did not have power when I first sent this out...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:47:00 GMT

Packing Up & Ready To Rock!

Here's where I'll be - making music and shooting video for the next season of our TV show! Check out the tour map below.I'll be touring during August & September 2008.I'm doing some conventional g...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:46:00 GMT

*REPORT FROM THE INFIELD *Hippies.TV - TONIGHT *WEEKEND MUSIC CALENDAR

*REPORT FROM THE INFIELD:The Making Of SBDECDS&DVDs*Hippies.TV - TONIGHT 10pm*WEEKEND MUSIC CALENDARThanks much for all of the calls and emails regarding the passing of Houston music professional Calv...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:25:00 GMT

REPORT FROM THE FIELD: Imaginary Tour of JAMS & OPEN MICS

*JANUARY EPISODES - Hippies.TV *REPORT FROM THE FIELD:Imaginary Tour of Jams & Open Mics - Leg 1 *BLUESGUY'S BIRTHDAY JAM - Artists Announced! *SOUTH BY DUE EAST 2008 - Artist Search *...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:18:00 GMT

Guy Schwartz’ Guide To JAMS & OPEN MICS in the Greater Metropolitan Houston Area

JAMS & OPEN MICSIn The Greater Metropolitan Houston AreaHow an idea evolves...----------It didn't start out as one of those brilliantly conceived master plans, but it seems to have turned into one...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:40:00 GMT

Buck Jones Memorial Fund

I'm home in Houston today, but my heart is somewhere else. There's a benefit for Buck Jones' family in his adopted home town of Nashville tonight (Wed. May 23, 2007), at the Exit/In at 6pm starring Gr...
Posted by on Wed, 23 May 2007 14:13:00 GMT