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'' Harry Fisher Henderson; October 20, 1943 – March 9, 2012), better known as "Bugs" Henderson, was an American
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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
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and spent his early life in
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, where he formed a band called the Sensores at age 16, and later joined
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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
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ously named. Henderson played with blues musicians such as B. B. King,
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,
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, and
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, as well as with
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saxophonist
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and rock guitarist
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. Henderson died just four days after a benefit concert in his name from complications of
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, aged 68, in March 2012. The performers at the 11-hour "Benefit Bugs" event included
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,
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&
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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"''


References

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