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 CheckerboardLounge.
Live At The CheckerboardLounge 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 ...
**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: Great sense of fun and music abilty, lacking ego! Disadvantages: The Automatic and Fiddy!
Covers have always been a bit of a hit and miss affair. Some people do it well, some people don't. It can be commercial suicide and ruin artists' credibility. The recent trend over the years, pushed particularly by Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley, and other ventures such as Warchild, is that an artist can perform live, or record a cover and still retain their credibility and not come over as a sell-out. Maybe it's just that people have lightened up a little, or maybe it is just because there are things like the LiveLounge, that encourage well-picked songs to do as a cover.
Granted that the concept is not a new one, and even Jo would not say that. But, I think the idea of the LiveLounge is maybe new. For the last couple of decades, musicians and music lovers have been concerned about what is cool and what is now. Noone would have dared ...
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Product details
Title
Live At The Checkerboard Lounge (Chicago 1979) [Digipak]
Performer
Buddy Guy
Genre
Blues
Sub Genre
Chicago Blues
Release Date
24/09/2007
Original Release Year
2007
Label / Distributor
JSP / Proper
Engineer
Ken Rasek
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Live
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
788065880828
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Buddy Guy (vocals, guitar); L.C. Thurston (vocals); Little Phil Smith, Phil Guy (guitar); J.W. Williams (bass); Ray Allison (drums). Recorded live at Buddy Guy's Southside Chicago Club, Chicago, Illinois in 1979.
Album Reviews
Living Blues (1-2/96, p.89) - "...a fascinating document of a great blues artist responding to the standards and expectations of the audience that nurtured postwar Chicago blues for over 30 years."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Buddy's Blues (Part One)
2.
Done Got Over
3.
I've Got A Right To Love My Woman
4.
Tell Me What's Inside Of You
5.
Things I Used To Do
6.
Dollar Done Fell
7.
Buddy's Blues (part two)
8.
Get Up Get Down
9.
Don't Answer The Door
10.
Tell Me What's Inside of You (version 2)
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16/09/2007
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