Buddy Guy - 2 albums: Damn Right, I've Got The Blues/Sweet Tea

Album: Damn Right, I've Got The Blues
Year: 1991
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:02
Size: 126,0 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. Damn Right, I've Got The Blues (4:31)
2. Where Is The Next One Coming From? (4:37)
3. Five Long Years (8:26)
4. Mustang Sally (4:43)
5. There Is Something On Your Mind (4:47)
6. Early In The Morning (3:11)
7. Too Broke To Spend The Night (5:03)
8. Black Night (7:46)
9. Let Me Love You Baby (3:58)
10. Rememberin' Stevie (6:56)

This guest-studded CD relaunched Buddy Guy's career and set him toward the pinnacle of contemporary blues. Despite turns from Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, and others, it's Guy who burns brightest - and loudest. He delivers roaring, exuberant performances of classic R&B ("Mustang Sally"), old-time blues ("Black Night"), and house rockers ("Where Is the Next One Coming From"). Most poignant, though, is his seven-minute instrumental "Rememberin' Stevie", which not only rekindles the fiery spirit of his own youth, but pays sensitive tribute to his late friend and admirer Stevie Ray Vaughan. This is the blueprint for Guy's current performing style. /Amazon

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Album: Sweet Tea
Year: 2001
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:25
Size: 124,7 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. Done Got Old (3:23)
2. Baby Please Don't Leave Me (7:24)
3. Look What All You Got (4:45)
4. Stay All Night (4:10)
5. Tramp (6:47)
6. She Got The Devil In Her (5:10)
7. I Gotta Try You Girl (12:09)
8. Who's Been Foolin' You (4:55)
9. It's A Jungle Out There (5:38)

Very few artists have attempted - or succeeded in - improving the standard template for classic blues records set some 40 years ago in the golden age of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. Perhaps R.L Burnside's recent heavily produced work on Fat Possum Records has come closest to adding an original slant. On his new album, Buddy Guy looks to the same source for inspiration; seven of the nine songs here are written by Fat Possum's hill-country blues roster, including T-Model Ford and Junior Kimbrough. Working with producer Dennis Herring (Counting Crows, Jars of Clay) and a small collective of Mississippi-based musicians, Guy sings with a passion that can only come from the same source as the songs. The noise generated in the studio through vintage amplifiers has a live and dangerous feel to it.

The acoustic opener, "Done Got Old", does not prepare the listener for the colossal aural assault of "Baby, Please Don't Leave Me". Fading in on a percussion track, Guy's guitar hits its cat-strangling best and never looks back, while the voice sounds energized, vital, and wholly contemporary. Through the 12-minute "I Got to Try It, Girl" to the closing Guy composition "It's a Jungle Out There", Sweet Tea has all the hallmarks of a classic blues album, mixed with a twist of the new. /Amazon

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