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Post by Admin on Dec 5, 2012 9:00:03 GMT -5
A Well Deserved honor for a great blues artist.
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Post by slapjaw on Dec 5, 2012 18:34:29 GMT -5
A Well Deserved honor for a great blues artist. Amen to that. I think the best guitar player out there...
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Post by poetrylover3 on Jan 31, 2013 8:27:37 GMT -5
So what's a good starting point? Is there a good anthology or an exceptional "signature" album available? Thanks.
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Post by slapjaw on Jan 31, 2013 13:02:44 GMT -5
Try, Buddy Guy 'Can't Quit The Blues"
3 Cd's, A DVD and Booklet. Early BG Stuff.
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Post by poetrylover3 on Feb 6, 2013 14:00:58 GMT -5
Slapjaw- I took your recommendation & bought "Can't Quit The Blues". THANK YOU- a 1000 times over. I love this collection-virtually all of which is new to me. I hear so much of his influence in later players. Anyway, I just wanted to express my thanks. BTW: "Hoodoo Man Blues" is hilarious.
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Post by slapjaw on Feb 6, 2013 19:03:47 GMT -5
Your more than welcome. If you want to see some more good stuff with Buddy, watch him in Clapton Crossroads DVD's. He starts jamming with the best and these guys just look at him as if to say WTF did he just do. I don't do a lot of concerts, but Buddy is one Guy ( get it guy) I enjoy to watch and listen to.
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Post by Admin on Jun 14, 2013 8:24:22 GMT -5
SourceKeith Urban Gets Bluesy With Buddy Guy Joseph Hudak photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage When Country Weekly caught up with Keith Urban shortly after his We’re All for the Hall benefit concert in Nashville in April, he was raving about seeing blues great Buddy Guy perform at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival. “I love Buddy,” Keith said. “He has an album coming out and he has a song he wants me to do, and I’m trying to figure out how to do that in the midst of all the other stuff.” Clearly, Keith found the time. On July 30, Buddy will release a double album, Rhythm & Blues, featuring, you guessed it, a special appearance by Keith. The guitar slingers team up on the song “One Day Away.” But Keith isn’t the only special guest on the 76-year-old bluesman’s project. Kid Rock also pops up, along with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, and rising blues star Gary Clark Jr. Buddy’s album doesn’t mark the first time he and Keith have teamed up. In 2009, the pair performed with B.B. King and John Mayer on the Grammy Awards.
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Post by earleg on Jun 14, 2013 23:12:38 GMT -5
Keith sure gets around!
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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2013 12:25:46 GMT -5
Great ArticleOn September 25th, 1957, George “Buddy” Guy boarded a train in Louisiana bound for Chicago, arriving just before midnight. He hadn’t made the move to become a professional musician, but rather to live where the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Little Walter could be seen. He would eventually meet and, as a session guitarist, back some of his heroes, including Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. In the early 60?s he would go on to start a solo career of his own, but it wouldn’t be until the early 90?s that Guy’s commercial success would skyrocket. He released three albums, starting with 1991?s Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues, all of which won Grammy Awards. His success has continued and in 2005 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. To commemorate the day that helped immerse his life in the blues, Guy has 92557 engraved into each of his guitars. Album 2013 "Rhythm and Blues" One of the best albums ive heard in a long time. The legendary Buddy Guy continues his legacy
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2013 7:27:13 GMT -5
I got a copy of this autographed from Buddy;s personal assistant, I find it hard to believe that some of the reviews are LESS than spectacular....
What I find about BUDDY that keeps me going to see him and enjoy his old n new releases is his ability like the great ones like BOWIE is the ability to keep changing, improving his playing.
SHoot he has close to 20 years on me N I wish I could play 1./2 as good as he does,there is no doubt BB KING may be the KING OF THE BLUES but without BUDDY GUY, LEONARD CHESS, WILLIE DIXON AND MUDDY WATERS.....the brit invasion would have never happened and ROCK N ROLL would have taken much longer to evolve.
I have yet to find ONE BAD SONG on this album which also features members of AEROSMITH, KID ROCK , BETH HART. There are NO repeat or previously recorded songs so ya get 2 CD:S with 20+ NEW SONGS....
I LOVE to use BUDDY as someone to practice to ...I'll put on 2-6 cd's and hit shuffle this keeps ya on your toes for ya never know what is coming a basic GCD or an alternate tuning or some far out song that BUDDY us showing off his ability with a geetar !!! Man he sure has some gifts. l hope this review is enough to get ya'll to BUY IT , if ya buy it I CAN GUARANTEE YOU will LOVE IT........... One of his best albums SWEAT TEA which was BLUES ALBUM OF THE DECADE 2000-2010...well in 10 years I can see this being the same !!!!!! enjoy
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Post by Admin on Feb 12, 2014 9:46:38 GMT -5
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Post by bscott on Sept 23, 2015 11:29:31 GMT -5
Sometimes, I feel that I am the only person who prefers his Blues Singer album over all of his other material. Don't misunderstand me, I do like his electric stuff, but this one album has that - je ne sais quoi about it. Tasteful. Really well played. Arrangements are perfect. And there are some killer grooves on it.
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Post by JamesP on Sept 23, 2015 15:34:17 GMT -5
Sometimes, I feel that I am the only person who prefers his Blues Singer album over all of his other material. Don't misunderstand me, I do like his electric stuff, but this one album has that - je ne sais quoi about it. Tasteful. Really well played. Arrangements are perfect. And there are some killer grooves on it. Buddy Guy can do it all!
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Post by bscott on Sept 23, 2015 18:50:55 GMT -5
So many of his contemporaries and teachers never receive the accolades they deserved, its nice to see him receiving them and reaping the monetary benefit as well.
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Post by AlanB on Sept 24, 2015 1:11:31 GMT -5
Sometimes, I feel that I am the only person who prefers his Blues Singer album over all of his other material. Don't misunderstand me, I do like his electric stuff, but this one album has that - je ne sais quoi about it. Tasteful. Really well played. Arrangements are perfect. And there are some killer grooves on it. Have to admit I've not kept up with Buddy's output. Back in 1971 his first acoustic recording venture (Buddy And The Juniors) was met with great indifference and, in some quarters, hostility. What follows is rather "golly gosh wow" but......make of it what you will. BUDDY GUY, JUNIOR WELLS, JUNIOR MANCE Buddy And The Juniors Harvest SHSP 4006 (Blue Thumb in US) IN AN era in recorded blues when the emphasis seems to be on 'amplifying' everybody from Muddy Waters to Sleepy John Estes, how refreshing it is to see the process being reversed. On this new album from Harvest we have two well known Chicago bluesmen and one modern jazzman completely acoustic and improvising some astounding blues. The first side comprises of just three, longish tracks allowing each artist to sing and play just as the mood takes them - the rapport created is tremendous. 'Talkin' About Women Obviously' is an improvisation between Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, lyrically based upon Lightnin' Hopkins' 'Short Haired Woman', but instrumentally it has the mood and feel of pure improvisation. If you are one of those who feel that genius is lost with amplification then 'Riffin' should please no end. The 'calls and response' interplay between Guy's acoustic guitar and Wells' harmonica are a minor masterpiece. The long flowing notes of the harmonica and the crisp, sharp picking by Buddy Guy could have never been achieved under 'amplification'. The last item on this side, 'Buddy's Blues' (though perhaps it should have been entitled "Muddy's Blues", for it is a stringing together of a few Muddy Waters songs) has Junior Mance joining in on piano taking us back to the Chicago of the Fifties. Side two isn't quite as compelling as the first, partly because they weren't improvising but also because all the tracks are blues 'standards'. 'Hoochie Coochie', 'Five Long Years' and 'Rock Me Mama'. Lyrically, performed so like the originals, that the tendency is to compare rather than contrast and require indepth listening. The brilliance of the playing really shines through - especially of pianist Junior Mance, whose style is so reminiscent of the late Otis Spann. I hope that this album will be a landmark in blues recording and prompt others to try the same experiment. Most successful and very satisfying. ALAN BALFOUR Cream Magazine (April 1971. p.44)
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