Eddie "Guitar" Burns (February 8, 1928 – December 12, 2012)[1] was an American Detroit blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer and songwriter.

[4] His father was a sharecropper who performed as a singer in medicine shows, but Burns was raised mainly by his grandparents.

[3] Burns was initially influenced by the music of Sonny Boy Williamson I and Big Bill Broonzy.

[2] Now permanently billed as Eddie "Guitar" Burns, he appeared on Hooker's album The Real Folk Blues (1966).

[8] In August 1976, Burns performed his song "Bottle Up & Go" live on the British television program So It Goes.

In 1989 Burns released the album Detroit for Blue Suit Records, in which his abilities on both guitar and harmonica were displayed.

[2] In February 1992, Burns appeared alongside Jack Owens, Bud Spires, and Lonnie Pitchford at the seventh annual New York Winter Blues Festival.

[9] In 2008, Little Sonny performed with Burns at the Motor City Blues & Boogie Woogie Festival.