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impressive What Kind of woman is this.
**The Album**
1.) Now You're Gone
This track is a cover of a classic Curtis Mayfield track and starts with an ear catching guitar break which leads into the gut wrenching blues melody. In this version BuddyGuy manages to take a classic song and completely reinvent it to make it sound so original. An awesome cover version. His vocals and guitar playing are both awesome.
2.) Ninety Nine and one half
This is probably the least well known of the classic tracks on this album but this is a fine reworking of Wilson Picketts track. On this track Buddy's guitar playing is a lot like BB King but still keeping his own style. Buddy's authorative vocals are a pleasure to listen to and also have elements of another blues and soul great Solomon Burke.
3.) What Kinda woman Is this
Now this is the only ...
Advantages: Great Voice Disadvantages: Songs Seem to blend into each Other At Times
the good vibes are songs like Sunrise and Creepin in because they are the ones that really grab your attention and say well come on and listen to me, as they are the most upbeat ones and carry a positive message with them. Thats when Nora really excelles herself and surpases all expectations that you could ever have of her. I always think when im listening to her more happy songs im in a movie and am driving along the road and at tha point you know, you just know that somehow everything will turn out right, or it will convince you that what ever situation your in at the minute is not so bad. and not that many alums can do that. ...
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
Feels Like Rain
Performer
Buddy Guy
Genre
Blues
Sub Genre
Chicago Blues
Release Date
03/1993
Original Release Year
1993
Label / Distributor
Silvertone / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Engineer
Tony Platt; Dave McNair
Producer
John Porter
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
828765358422
Catalogue Number
ORECD 525
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Buddy Guy (vocals, guitar); David Grissom, Johnny Lee Schell, John Porter (guitar); Jimmy Powers (harmonica); Marty Grebb (tenor & baritone saxophones, piano, organ, background vocals); Bill Payne (piano, keyboards); Ian McLagen (Wurlitzer piano); John Philip Shenal (organ, synthesizers); Mick Weaver (organ); Tom Canning (Hammond organ); Rick Cortes, Greg Rzab (bass); Richie Hayward, Joe Yuele (drums); Tony Braunagle (percussion); Renee Geyer, Mike Finnegan (background vocals). Texicali Horns: Joe Sublett (tenor saxophone); Darrell Leonard (trumpet). FEELS LIKE RAIN won the 1994 Grammy Award for "Contemporary Blues Album." Buddy Guy, the God of electric Chicago blues, has been one of the single most important influences on generations of blues and rock guitarists. His fluid yet blistering style has fueled the inspiration of many, and his down-to-business vocals add to a forceful, dynamic sound. On FEELS LIKE RAIN, Guy's explosive guitar detonates from the first track, and throughout this award-winning "comeback" album he does not let up. Interpreting songwriters who aren't necessarily known as bluesmen--John Fogerty and John Hiatt among them--Buddy Guy rips into the material, fragmenting all genres with his fervent vocals and aggresive guitar work. Pugnacious tracks like "I Go Crazy" and "Country Man" hint at the fact that this is not an easy-listening blues collection. Even when the mood is tempered on cuts like the R&B/jazz-tinged "Mary Ann" and the slow-tempo'd, simmering gospel blues, "Sufferin' Mind," he bursts out with shrapnel directed at the soul. There's also a shimmering, horn-filled rhythm & roll cover of Marvin Gaye's "Trouble Man." Electric in every sense, FEELS LIKE RAIN feels like a lightning bolt to the gut.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (4/1/93, p.53) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...Guy reigns supreme among flashy, high-energy blues guitarists....these songs sound tailor-made for Guy's heated, gospelish vocal turns..." Spin (5/93, pp.84-85) - Highly Recommended - "...achieves a greater cohesiveness than anything he's recorded to date....Guy's great gift is that he can create revolutions without knocking walls down..." Q (4/93, p.82) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...an unreconstructed dude who has no qualms about cranking the axe to 10 and letting rip....Guy plays to his strengths--stringmanship and singing--while letting others take a the songwriting strain..." Entertainment Weekly (4/2/93, p.53) - "...when he starts strafing the landscape, it's hard not to surrender to the blinding intensity of this living legend's white-hot blues..." - Rating: B-
Titles on disc 1
1.
She's A Superstar
2.
I Go Crazy
3.
Feels Like Rain
4.
She's Nineteen Years Old
5.
Some Kind Of Wonderful
6.
Sufferin' Mind
7.
Change In The Weather
8.
I Could Cry
9.
Mary Ann
10.
Trouble Man
11.
Country Man
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