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**Introduction**
On a recent edition of classic Later with Jools Holland I was transfixed by the energy and vigour of BuddyGuy's performance of His awesome Damn Right I've got the blues from his 1991 album of the same name, I was already a fan of his music but didnt know all that much about his music. After a few minutes looking around on amazon I bought three of his cds, Skin Deep, Damn right I've got the blues and of course this one Bring Em In from 2005.
**Bring Em In**
Bring 'Em In features collaborations with various artists, the artists who feature are Carlos Santana (guitar), Tracy Chapman (vocals), John Mayer (guitar), Anthony Hamilton (vocals), Robert Randolph (pedal steel), and Keith Richards (guitar). The album features mostly covers of classic blues tracks but there is one BuddyGuy original which is the hugely ...
Advantages: This man can play Disadvantages: Not a lot of lyrics
on the line “I’m a very old man” and the strumming of his acoustic guitar fades into the distance you get the impression that this going to be a laid-back country blues album.
As the snare drum of “Baby please don’t leave Me” played by Spam is heard with the bass player Davey Faragher counting 1, 2, that impression is soon dispelled as the dirtiest sounding bass with the slackest strings is heard along with the incendiary guitar playing of buddyGuy who is singing “Oh baby please”. This pounding riff whish is basically the whole song distorts and bends it’s way for buddy to play a relentless solo in the middle to great effect, making the track a wall of thumping bass and riffs that ends with the sound of controlled feedback.
As the third song “Look what you got” starts ...
Advantages: Makes you realise just how cool Blues can be Disadvantages: The sound quality though not bad might put some people used to 'polish' off
I always forget just how much I like Blues until I start listening to it again, though it can be hard to find it really pure and passionate these days. I have a couple of other BuddyGuy albums; one early on, his recordings for Chess Records, where he was a session player and though his desire to do so, was never allowed to cut loose (a mistake the head, Marshall Chess, recognised late on in the sixties when the likes of Hendrix, Clapton et al were crashing to stardom). The other, Damn Right I Got The Blues, from the nineties never quite cuts it. So what a pleasure it was to stumble upon Live At The Checkerboard Lounge.
Live At The Checkerboard Lounge is not quite a purist album but it's pretty close. BuddyGuy was approached by JSP Records, then with virtually no catalogue to produce a live album, as Guy at the time could ...
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Product details
Title
Blues Singer
Performer
Buddy Guy
Genre
Blues
Sub Genre
Chicago Blues
Release Date
07/07/2003
Recomended Retail Price
13.99 GBP
Original Release Year
2003
Label / Distributor
Silvertone / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Engineer
Ed Cherney
Producer
Dennis Herring
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
828765346825
Catalogue Number
82876534682
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Buddy Guy (vocals, guitar); B.B. King, Eric Clapton, James "Jimbo" Mathus (guitar); Tony Garnier (upright bass); Jim Keltner (drums); The Perrys (sound effects). Recorded at Sweet Tea, Oxford, Mississippi. Going beyond the stripped-down arrangements of 2001's SWEET TEA, Buddy Guy picks up an acoustic guitar to cut a record that comes across as an off-the-cuff homage to mentor Muddy Waters, whose similar 1963 outing FOLK SINGER featured Guy's guitar work. From the minute this Mississippi native affects a falsetto on Skip James's "Hard Time Killing Floor," neck hairs remain standing on end for the better part of BLUES SINGER. The remainder of these dozen carefully selected tracks find the blues legend rifling through the canons of favorites like Robert Nighthawk (a loping "Anna Lee"), Willie Dixon (the brash "I Live the Life I Love"), and Johnny Shines (a spirited "Moanin' and Groanin'"). Eric Clapton joins in for a tasty take on Frankie Sims' "Lucy Mae Blues" and B.B. King makes three for an acoustic blues summit on John Lee Hooker's seminal "Crawlin' Kingsnake." Though far from the raucous outings fans have come to expect, this collection of acoustic blues is a creative success and yet another stellar addition to Guy's already impressive discography.
Album Reviews
Uncut (11/03, p.107) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Guy sounds simply magnificent, whether he's high and haunting on 'Hard Time Killing Floor' or deep and sonorous on 'Crawlin' King Snake'..." Living Blues (11/03, p.69) - "...He doesn't need anyone's help to make this disc a masterpiece - he takes care of that on his own..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Hard Time Killing Floor
2.
Crawlin' Kingsnake - Guy, Buddy & Eric Clapton/B.B. King
3.
Lucy Mae Blues - Guy, Buddy & Eric Clapton
4.
Can't See Baby
5.
I Live The Life I Love
6.
Louise McGhee
7.
Moanin' And Groanin'
8.
Black Cat Blues
9.
Bad Life Blues
10.
Sally Mae
11.
Anna Lee
12.
Lonesome Home Blues
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