Feels Like Rain - Buddy Guy

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 Buddy Guy 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. Buddy Guy was approached by JSP Records, then with virtually no catalogue to produce a live album, as Guy at the time could hardly... Read review

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Advantages: Very mellow album of music
Disadvantages: Not to everyone's taste

...A few years ago, I was driving home quite late one night, as always, my car radio was tuned to Radio 2 and I ended up listening to Bob Harris' show. He played a track by an artist I had never heard of, a guy called Buddy Mondlock, from his album "Poetic Justice". I was so taken with the track, that as soon as I got home, I logged on to the net and purchased the CD there and then. When the CD arrived, I was not disappointed in the slightest. I had been sligthly apprehensive as to the rest of the album, as Bob Harris' show is country and I am not a fan of country music on the whole. However, Buddy Mondlock is more in the folk genre and is a truly great singer/songwriter. The album "Poetic Justice" has 12 tracks with a run time of approximately 45 minutes in total. Each track is beautifully crafted with Mondlock's soft and melodic... Read review

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Advantages: For any Buddy Holly Fan
Disadvantages: None unless you do not like Buddy Holly

...Apart from this CD being from one of the greatest 50's performers of all time who tragically past on way before his time along with other stars whoose talents like Buddy's were not at that time totally released as had he had the chance then record sales would have boomed. He was a household name and to many even in 2005 remains one of the most reknown artists of this genre of music. When you listen to this CD it makes you think back to the era when playing your guitar in a friends garage was what it was all about and you can picture when you close your eyes being there accross the road watching and listening to the raw beat and riffs(guitar solos) as they were performed with out any enhancing like you get with todays music. This CD has his most well known hits and songs on and is perfect for those relaxing evenings at home... Read review

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