| | Buddy Guy Blues Singer CD Buddy Guy Discography of CDs
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BLUES SINGER won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.
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.
Recorded at Sweet Tea, Oxford, Mississippi.
Personnel: Buddy Guy (vocals, guitar); Jimbo "Hambone" Mathus (guitar, slide guitar); Eric Clapton, B.B. King (guitar); Tony Garnier (upright bass); Jim Keltner (drums); The Perrys (hand claps).
Audio Mixer: Ed Cherney.
Recording information: Sweet Tea, Oxford, MS.
Illustrator: Jon Langford.
Photographer: Clay Jones.
Acoustic Blues. W/Guests: E. Clapton,B.B.King,J.Keltner ++
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).
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..." Blues Singer Music | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Urban Soundtrack, Chicago Blues, Delta, Blues | | Label | Silvertone | | Orig Year | 2003 | | All Time Sales Rank |  6176  | | CD Universe Part number | 5891331 | | Catalog number | 41843 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 03, 2003 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Dennis Herring | | Engineer | Ed Cherney; Andy Hunt; Colby Devereux; Dawn Palladino; Jacquire King | | Personnel | Buddy Guy - vocals, guitar
Tony Garnier - upright bass
Jimbo "Hambone" Mathus - guitar, slide guitar
Perrys - hand claps
Also: Eric Clapton, Jim Keltner, Andrew "B.B." Odom |
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Guitarist Ronnie Earl recorded the majority of the instrumental release I Feel Like Goin' On live in the studio with no overdubbing. As one of the best contemporary blues guitarists around, Earl naturally shows off his prowess on these 11 cuts, with sturdy assistance from Dave Limina on piano/organ, Jimmy Mouradian on bass, Lorne Entress ...
| | Mike Bloomfield Super Session CD (1968) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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A surprise best-seller when it was first released, this mostly improvised pairing of singer/keyboardist/producer Al Kooper with two major guitar heroes of the day sounds fascinating all these years later precisely because of the distance of time--nobody makes records like this any more. The material runs the gamut from folk pop (covers of Donovan and Dylan), to blues ("Albert's Shuffle," "You Don't Love Me"), to heady jams ("His Holy Modal Majesty"), to big-band jazz ("Harvey's Tune").
All the tunes make effective templates for the kind off-the-cuff music-making that in less capable hands might have resulted in simple noodling. In fact, although Bloomfield and Stills don't play together on any of the cuts (Bloomfield played on one side of the original LP, Stills on the other), all three principals get off lots of good licks and producer Kooper has some interesting tricks up his sleeve, as in the over-the-top phasing he lavishes on "You Don't Love Me." The only real disappointment here is that Stills, a far better singer than Kooper, never opens his mouth.
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| | Joe Bonamassa Blues Deluxe CD (2003)
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| | Eric Clapton Me And Mr. Johnson CD (2004)
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