Buddy's Blues

by Buddy Guy

Overview

As part of MCA's Chess Records 50th Anniversary series, Buddy's Blues sweats Guy's multi-disc retrospective, The Complete Chess Studio Recordings down to a scintillating 15-track package and comes up with a bare-bones winner. There are loads of great guitar on classics like "First Time I Met the Blues," "Let Me Love You Baby," "Pretty Baby," "My Time After Awhile," "Stone Crazy," and Guy's voice is at its whiplash exuberant best. Unexpected bonuses pop up in the comp's kickoff track, a full-length version of "Worried Mind," issued here without the overdubbed applause and crowd noises that accompanied its original release on Folk Festival of the Blues (see Muddy Waters' entry). Also noteworthy is Junior Wells' appearance on chromatic harp on "Ten Years Ago," and Guy's stellar guitar behind Lacy Gibson's vocal on a Buddy Guy original, "My Love Is Real." And special note must also be made of the spacious stereo mixes used on this compilation, making these 30-year-old-plus tracks shine like diamonds coming off the laser beam. We also experience all the stylistic turns toward a kinship with the burgeoning soul and rock scenes that Guy would make toward the end of his Chess tenure, along with the smoking slow burners that are his trademark, some of which clock in at four to six minutes here. With his very best tracks compiled on one disc, and with beautiful transfers of them to enhance the listening experience, this should be one of your very first stops in absorbing the sides that made Buddy Guy's reputation among blues fans and guitar aficionados the world over. ~ Cub Koda

Product Details

Release Date:	07/14/2015
Label:	Smcmg / Sony Music
UPC:	0888751239425
Rank:	30515

Tracks

1. Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
2. Five Long Years
3. Mustang Sally
4. Rememberin' Stevie
5. She's a Superstar
6. Feels Like Rain
7. She's Nineteen Years Old
8. I Smell Trouble
9. Someone Else Is Steppin' In (Slippin' Out, Slippin' In)
10. My Time After Awhile
11. Midnight Train
12. Miss Ida B
13. I Need Your Love So Bad
14. Innocent Man/Mannish Boy/Backdoor Man; Innocent Man\Mannish Boy\Backdoor Man

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Buddy Guy   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Lafayette Leake   Piano,Organ
Clifton James   Drums
Fred Below   Drums
Charles Stepney   Drums
Bob Neely   Sax (Tenor)
Junior Wells   Harmonica
Milton Bland   Sax (Tenor)
Johnny Lang   Featured Artist
Murray Watson   Trumpet
Lefty Bates   Guitar
Lacy Gibson   Guitar,Vocals
Gene Barge   Sax (Tenor)
Leonard Caston   Organ,Piano
Leroy Stewart   Bass
Little Brother Montgomery   Piano
Phil Thomas   Drums
Phil Upchurch   Bass
Matt "Guitar" Murphy   Guitar
Otis Spann   Piano
A.C. Reed   Sax (Tenor)
Sonny Turner   Trumpet
Abe Locke   Sax (Tenor)
Al Duncan   Drums
Donald Hankins   Sax (Baritone),Sax (Tenor)
Jarrett Gibson   Sax (Baritone),Sax (Tenor)
Jack Meyers   Bass

Technical Credits

Eurreal Montgomery   Composer
Reggie Young   Composer
Al Perkins   Composer
Buddy Guy   Composer
Willie Dixon   Composer
Sonny Boy Williamson I   Composer
Ron Badger   Composer
Mike Fink   Design
Geary Chansley   Photo Research
Brian Smith   Photography
Sheldon Feinberg   Composer
Sonny Boy Williamson II   Composer
Andy McKaie   Compilation Producer
Bobby Womack   Composer
Gene Barge   Producer
Erick Labson   Digital Remastering
Robert Geddins   Composer
Leonard Chess   Producer
Little Brother Montgomery   Composer
Ronald Bager   Composer
Phil Chess   Producer
Don Bronstein   Photography
Ray Flerlage   Photography
Joseph Sia   Photography