By the early 80s, Guthrie was playing with Rocky Hill, along with Brett Reid & ‘Uncle John’ Turner. Rocky and the band opened for such Texas music legends as ZZ Top, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Johnny Winter, and Ray Wylie Hubbard.

Guthrie and Brett joined up with drummer Jimmy ‘Blueshoes’ Pendleton to form The Hippie Dogs, a band with “the soul of a hippie and the howl of a dog.” The Dogs recorded a self-titled CD in 1994, and opened for Lee Rocker and Delbert McClinton. Buddy Magazine named all three-band members “Texas Tornados,” calling them “the best musicians in Texas, perhaps in the world.”

Guthrie has also played with Buddy Miles, Jack Morgan, Curly ‘Barefoot’ Miller, Jim Suhler, and Robert Ealey. He has toured extensively through Europe with Smokin’ Joe Kubek, Eddie Martin, and Marc Benno, playing some great venues like the Womad Festival,

the Colne Festival, Nuits de Blues,…