 Artist: Buddy Guy: mp3 download Genre(s): Blues Buddy Guy's discography:  Live at the Checkerboard Lounge: Chicago 1979 Year: 2007 Tracks: 10  Can't Quit the Blues (cd3) Year: 2006 Tracks: 15  Can't Quit the Blues (cd2) Year: 2006 Tracks: 14  Can't Quit the Blues (cd1) Year: 2006 Tracks: 18  Bring 'Em In Year: 2005 Tracks: 13  Blues Singer Year: 2003 Tracks: 12  Sweet Tea Year: 2001 Tracks: 9  Buddy's Baddest: The Best Of Buddy Guy Year: 1999 Tracks: 14  Heavy Love Year: 1998 Tracks: 11  The Complete Chess Studio Recordings (CD 2) Year: 1997 Tracks: 25  The Complete Chess Studio Recordings (CD 1) Year: 1997 Tracks: 22  Buddy's Blues (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) Year: 1997 Tracks: 15  Live: The Real Deal Year: 1996 Tracks: 9  Live! The Real Deal (with G.E. Smith and The Saturday Night Live Band) Year: 1996 Tracks: 9  Slippin' In Year: 1994 Tracks: 11  Pleading the Blues Year: 1993 Tracks: 8  Feels Like Rain Year: 1993 Tracks: 11  Ohne Filter Year: 1991 Tracks: 8  Damn Right, I've Got The Blues Year: 1991 Tracks: 10  Breaking Out Year: 1988 Tracks: 8  A Man and The Blues Year: 1987 Tracks: 8  Stone Crazy Year: 1981 Tracks: 6  This Is Buddy Guy (Live) Year: 1968 Tracks: 8  Left My Blues In San Francisco Year: 1967 Tracks: 9  I Left My Blues in San Francisco Year: 1967 Tracks: 11  My Time After Awhile Year: Tracks: 11  D.J Play My Blues Year: Tracks: 10 He's Chicago's vapours baron today, persuasion his world just as his matinee idol and mentor Muddy Waters did ahead him. Yet in that respect was a time, and non all that long agone either, when Buddy Guy couldn't regular lecture terms a decent phonograph record make up out. Times sure welcome changed for the bettor -- Guy's first triad albums for Silvertone in the '90s all earned Grammys. Eric Clapton unabashedly calls Buddy Guy his favourite blues axeman, and so do a outstanding many lovesome fans general. High-energy guitar histrionics and boundless onstage energy have always been Guy trademarks, along with a tortured vocal style that's nearly as distinctive as his seditious rapid-fire fretwork. He's come a long way of life from his beginnings on the 1950s Baton Rouge blues picture -- at his first-class honours degree gigs with bandleader "Handsome Poppa" John Tilley, the young guitarist had to chug a stomach-jolting concoction of Dr. Tichenor's antiseptic and wine to aaron Montgomery Ward off an advanced case of stage fearfulness. But by the time he joined harper Raful Neal's stria, Guy had conquered his nervousness. Hombre journeyed to Chicago in 1957, quick to engage the town by force. But times were tough ab initio, until he sour up the juice as a showman (a great deal as some other of his former idols, Guitar Slim, had back home). It didn't take long later on that for the unexampled tike in ithiel Town to establish himself. He hung with the city's blues elite: Freddy King, Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, and Magic Sam, world Health Organization introduced Buddy Guy to Cobra Records knob Eli Toscano. Two searing 1958 singles for Cobra's Artistic underling were the outcome: "This Is the End" and "Try to Quit You Baby" exhibited more than a trace of B.B. King influence, spell "You Sure Can't Do" was an unabashed court to Guitar Slim. Willie Dixon produced the sides. When Cobra folded, Guy wisely followed Rush all over to Chess. With the issue of his first Chess unmarried in 1960, Guy was no thirster aurally indebted to anybody. "First Time I Met the Blues" and its follow-up, "Broken Hearted Blues," were fiery, tormented wearisome blues brilliantly showcasing Guy's whammy-bar-enriched guitar and screech, hellhound-on-his-trail vocals. Although he's often complained that Leonard Chess wouldn't allow him to turn up his guitar loud enough, the claim doesn't wash: Guy's 1960-1967 Chess catalog remains his most cheering body of influence. A shuffle "Allow Me Love You Baby," the fervid downbeat items "Tenner Years Ago," "Rock Crazy," "My Time After Awhile," and "Leave My Girl Alone," and a resilient "No Lie" rate with the hottest blues waxings of the '60s. While at Chess, Guy worked foresighted and difficult as a session guitar player, acquiring his licks in on sides by Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Koko Taylor (on her run into "Wang Dang Doodle"). Upon going away Chess in 1967, Guy went to Vanguard. His first LP for the firm, A Man and the Blues, followed in the same spick-and-span venous blood vessel as his Chess work and contained the rocking "Blessed Virgin Had a Little Lamb," only This Is Buddy Guy and Hold That Plane! proved somewhat less consistent. Guy and harpist Junior Wells had foresighted been friends and played around Chicago together (Hombre supplied the guitar work on Wells' seminal 1965 Delmark set Hoodoo Man Blues, initially billed as "Friendly Chap" because of his Chess narrow); they recorded unitedly for Blue Thumb in 1969 as Pal and the Juniors (pianist Junior Mance beingness the other Junior) and Atlantic in 1970 (roger Sessions co-produced by Eric Clapton and Tom Dowd), and 1972 for the solid album Sidekick Guy & Junior Wells Play the Blues. Buddy and Junior toured together end-to-end the '70s, their playful repartee immortalized on Drinkin' TNT 'n' Smokin' Dynamite, a live set cut at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival. Guy's report among rock guitar gods such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan was unsurpassed, merely prior to his Grammy-winning 1991 Silvertone disc Goddamn Right, I've Got the Blues, he astonishingly hadn't issued a domestic record album in a 10. That's when the Buddy Guy bandwagon truly picked up steam -- he began marketing extinct auditoriums and turning up on electronic network idiot box (David Letterman, Jay Leno, etc.). Feels Like Rain, his 1993 encore, was a immense letdown artistically, unless i enjoys the distorted concept of having one of the world's top bluesmen duo with area lid represent Travis Tritt and hopelessly overwrought rock singer Paul Rodgers. By comparability, 1994's Slippin' In, produced by Eddie Kramer, was a major step endorse in the right direction, with no hideous duets and a preponderance of genuine blues excursions. Last Time Around: Live at Legends, an acoustic excursion with longtime partner Junior Wells followed in 1998. In 2001, Guy switched gears and went to Mississippi for a recording of the type of modal juke joint vapors preferent by Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside and the Fat Possum crew. The result was Sweet Tea: arguably one of his finest albums and yet a complete anomaly in his catalog. Oddly sufficiency, he chose to follow that up with Blues Singer in 2003, some other wholly acoustic elbow grease that north Korean won a Grammy. For 2005's Bring 'Em In, it was back to the same templet as his first gear albums for Silvertone, with polished production and a smattering of edgar Albert Guest stars. A Buddy Guy concert can sometimes be a thwarting live. He'll be in the middle of something downright hair-raising, only to get around it off dead in mid-song, or he'll disregard his possess massive songbook in parliamentary procedure to offer imitations of Clapton, Vaughan, and Hendrix. But Guy, whose club remains the well-nigh successful vapors reefer in Chicago (you'll likely get hold him sitting at the prevention whenever he's in town), is without a doubt the Windy City's ruling blues creative person -- and he rules benevolently. |
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