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Couldn't find a thread about him. For the first time in years, I was just listening to a tape of a Toronto gig from about 12 yrs ago that I'd taped off the radio in middle school and was blown away by the playing and singing. So C/D, S/D.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 3 September 2004 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Does the feedback shred aspect come through on any of the studio recordings?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 3 September 2004 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Classic.

I used to have a "Best of Laura Records" CD somewhere that included 4 or 5 tracks from Buddy Guy's '50s Chicago period. Good stuff.

Wonder where I put that CD...

― Anonymous Coward, Friday, 3 September 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago)

He's great, though his recorded output has been spotty until recently. That "Sweet Tea" album is awesome, though.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 3 September 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Always, always worth seeing live. I'm with Sundar in that I haven't heard anything on record that reflects the skronked-out noise I've heard BG get into in concert. Occasionally he'll do guitar impersonations, where he runs through hendrix, clapton, bb, srv licks -- both spot-on and very funny.

― briania (briania), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, he did a BB King impersonation in this show. At one point I guess he thought it was slipping a bit and said "Whoops, that might be some Buddy Guy in there".

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Search: the only Buddy Guy album I own is Damn Right, I've Got the Blues, which is certain worth a spin. I haven't listened to it in a year or more, but I think it's pretty light on the feedback/shred. He's also got some great performances on that Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute video -- he steals the show from Clapton, Cray, etc.

― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Search: "DJ Play My Blues", and his awesome performance of "First Time I Met The Blues" on the 1972 documentary "Chicago Blues".

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago)

his daughter is Shawnna, of DTP and 'Shake That Shit' fame.

― sleuther, Friday, 3 September 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago)

wow, you learn something new every day.

Despite living within walking distance of his club -- where he still periodically plays -- I've never been there. I did see him play at a different venue about a dozen years or so ago -- around the time of Damn Right I got the Blues, which I thought was a fine album. And yeah, Josh is OTM -- Sweet Tea is a great, unexpected blast of fuzzy scuzz; sounds like he'd been checking out the Fat Possum crew.

I've got that CD of some his earliest sides, Southern Blues on Paula, which is pretty lackluster. He's still working out his style, I think, and some of the backing is frankly pretty bad. I doesn't seem like he hit the mark until he started hanging out with the Chess folks. I like how he sounds backing up the Wolf.

― Reed Moore (diamond), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I think this is one my all-time favorite record covers, but I've never heard the record. I will get it one of these days..

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d835/d83588u89p9.jpg

― Reed Moore (diamond), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago)

i don't like his style very much, but he is a master of it.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago)

That's not a great record - too larded with guests (Clapton, Ron Wood, etc.). Pick up Drinkin' TNT & Smokin' Dynamite, on Blind Pig, and either Buddy's Blues or the 2-CD complete Chess recordings (I don't remember if it's still in print or not). Also Stone Crazy!, on Alligator.

Sweet Tea is a great record, as stated. It's mostly tunes by Fat Possum artists, which is why it sounds like it does.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Check out the Buddy Guy Band in the movie Festival Express. Fucking wicked-sweet.

― Justin Farrar (Justin Farrar), Friday, 3 September 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago)

i think of guy as one of the first major bluesman to have grown up as much on rock as blues--at least, his major records seem to split the difference. his guitar playing seems excessive to me much of the time--too many notes, too much volume, etc.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 3 September 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

weird i just (randomly) won tickets to see buddy guy next month ... will it be good?

― tylerw, Monday, 28 March 2011 16:57 (fourteen years ago)

I saw him once a long time ago. He's very shticky, but can sure play the guitar. One of the last of the old-school blues guys.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:10 (fourteen years ago)

Occasionally he'll do guitar impersonations, where he runs through hendrix, clapton, bb, srv licks -- both spot-on and very funny.
― briania (briania), Friday, September 3, 2004 8:10 AM (6 years ago)

^^^I've seen him do this several times, so this could be a regular part of his schtick these days. As stated above, kinda loud and overdriven, but as a chance to see one of the last original progenitors of that style, classic. He's a helluva showman.

― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:14 (fourteen years ago)

Um, yeah, what kornrulez said...

― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

Check out the Buddy Guy Band in the movie Festival Express. Fucking wicked-sweet.
― Justin Farrar (Justin Farrar), Friday, September 3, 2004 5:54 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

This post is OTM. Guy kills in that film.

― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:19 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, i think that clip is pretty much why i entered to get these tix. i know guy from various sideman things, but not really as a solo artist. but it should be fun, i think!

― tylerw, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

dude can play but he definitely hams it up for a very specific audience. if you know what i'm saying. so yes "shticky" is otm, but hey free tix

― the Hogg who would be Boss (will), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:56 (fourteen years ago)

I've been listening to him for decades, but never got to see him live until last year when he opened for Tom Petty at MSG. A little hammy for sure, and the song he played off his latest album kinda sucked, but the old shit was killer.

― that's not funny. (unperson), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:57 (fourteen years ago)

It's 40 years on, let's hope he hasnt had a Clapton-esque loss of testicles

― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:57 (fourteen years ago)

40 years on since Festival Express, I mean

― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:58 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

If he's hammy, which he is, he's hammy in the right way.

― Valuable New Polish Film Posters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 June 2011 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

I work a block from his club in Chicago and I always mean to go see him during one of his month long residencies, but haven't managed to make it to one yet.

― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 June 2011 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

holy shit these solos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8z1Weh-las

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZWAmxNtDQU

― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:29 (twelve years ago)

that solo in the middle of 74 years young is like damn throw away all your dumb noise rock records...

― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:30 (twelve years ago)

Thanking you.

― The POLLed Geir America (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:48 (twelve years ago)

'sweet tea' is awesome and fits my recommend me menacing music thread, perhaps because there are a bunch of junior kimbrough covers

― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 January 2013 00:59 (twelve years ago)

Damn, Scott, you're not kidding. That solo is insane.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 10 January 2013 01:10 (twelve years ago)

i decided to put 74 years young at #11 on my pazz and jop ballot for that year : (

― j., Thursday, 10 January 2013 01:34 (twelve years ago)

Sweet Tea was awesome.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 January 2013 02:31 (twelve years ago)

big fan of this tune, but don't own this or any albums. need to correct that. will take y'alls advices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwPeZLt22rw

― andrew m., Thursday, 10 January 2013 03:15 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

great piece:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/from-howlin-wolf-to-hendrix-the-life-and-times-of-buddy-guy-20151104

― brimstead, Sunday, 15 November 2015 00:37 (nine years ago)

Thx

― The Cosimo Code of Blueshammer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 November 2015 00:59 (nine years ago)

It's been said on this thread many times but it bears repeating: Sweet Tea is a fantastic record.

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 15 November 2015 01:05 (nine years ago)

Yeah, I think it might be the best of his latter-day albums (I also really like Slippin' In, the one he made with Stevie Ray Vaughan's old rhythm section).

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 15 November 2015 02:31 (nine years ago)

eleven months pass...

just been listening to BG's First Time I Met The Blues album with Junior Wells, it has some killer stuff on it. The recording standard is rough as fuck, but the music exceptional.

― calzino, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:18 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

This cut from 1966 is really hot. I love the horns and Buddy just lays into the last chorus. It's a Chess production to me that sounds like they were trying to get on some Stax/Atlantic action with the horn arrangement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdEM3b7sas8&fbclid=IwAR3GUyR-FOCbPOke3LIxYuIGMsXnn--KGpyg88-WK3sWxsgRVlfVKc3o57M

― earlnash, Friday, 3 May 2019 00:37 (six years ago)

Buddy Guy "My Mother"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdEM3b7sas8

― earlnash, Friday, 3 May 2019 00:51 (six years ago)

Buddy’s vocals are so powerful and Stax-like on that

― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2019 03:23 (six years ago)

Mandatory "Revive had me worried..." Post.

― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 May 2019 03:41 (six years ago)

Obligatory seconded

― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 May 2019 12:14 (six years ago)

five years pass...

Tw: alcohol consumption

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGPSzbRMi70/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

― brimstead, Saturday, 1 March 2025 17:19 (three months ago)

It keeps him active at 88

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 March 2025 00:01 (three months ago)

Awesome. I hope I’ll look even half that cool at that age.

― Founder of America’s Golden Age (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 2 March 2025 16:43 (three months ago)

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