The Yardbirds soon had hits of their own, though the recording of "For Your Love" became famous for Eric Clapton's refusal to sell out to pop sensibilities, leaving the band to play a more authentic style of electric blues with John Mayall.
A true bluesman's bluesman, Guy came of age playing with heavy cats like Muddy Waters, the father of electric blues, and is as authentic a musician as America has ever produced.
But I don't really buy the purist, Pete Seeger, Dylan-goes-electric debate about what is authentic.
For example, you get a choice of keyboard sounds: two grand piano sounds, two electric pianos and an incredibly authentic-sounding harpsichord.
Although the sound reproduction of these reconstructions is considered to be quite authentic, the contemporary regals generally are supplied with electric blowers instead of hand bellows.
The best of the spots were very, very good – electric with inventive energy, yet grainy enough to look authentic, as indeed they were.
His small electric band's one-chord guitar drones and heavy shuffle beat are truer to the authentic North Mississippi sound than they are on his previous recordings.
What keeps it electric is those songs from the trenches: tough, wry, pithy, cynical about the top brass, authentic soldiers' voices that are rude, unsentimental and Britishly stoical: not for them the Russian or German uprisings.
Authentic, authentic, authentic.
Remember: authentic, authentic, authentic.
