A Man & The Blues
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Vanguard |
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Released |
November 11, 1987 |
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Original year of release |
1987 |
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Recorded |
1968 |
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Total playing time |
39 minutes |
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Producer |
Samuel B. Charters |
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Buddy Guy |
Guitar, Vocals |
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Fred Below |
Drums |
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Wayne Bennett |
Guitar, Rhythm guitar |
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Aaron Corthen |
Saxophone |
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Bobby Field |
Saxophone |
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Donald Hankins |
Saxophone |
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Jack Myers |
Bass |
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Otis Spann |
Piano |
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Lonnie Taylor |
Drums |
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Tracks
written by |
playing time |
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| 1. |
Buddy Guy |
6:23 |
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| 2. |
Buddy Guy |
3:20 |
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| 3. |
Janie Bradford/Berry Gordy |
2:53 |
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| 4. |
Mercy Dee Walton |
5:38 |
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| 5. |
Buddy Guy |
2:32 |
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| 6. |
Buddy Guy |
2:56 |
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| 7. |
B.B. King |
5:39 |
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| 8. |
Plumber Davis/Jules Taub |
6:21 |
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| 9. |
Buddy Guy |
2:52 |
Reviews
AMG
The guitarist's first album away from Chess -- and to be truthful,
it sounds as though it could have been cut at 2120 S. Michigan, with
Guy's deliciously understated guitar work and a tight combo anchored
by three saxes and pianist Otis Spann laying down tough grooves on the
vicious "Mary had a little lamb," "I can't quit the blues,"
and an excultant cover of Mercy Dee's "One room Country shack".
Amazon (Ted Drozdowski)
Buddy Guy's greatest album is also his debut full-length session
as a leader. "One Room Country Shack," "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (a Stevie
Ray Vaughan favorite), "Sweet Little Angel," and "Worry, Worry" are
defining songs/, full of high-wire vocal dynamics and guitar work of
almost balletic poise. The tone of Guy's 1957 Fender six-string remains
the benchmark for nearly every blues player who's since hefted a Stratocaster.
This CD is as tasteful and dramatic as Guy's 1990s performances are
brash and assaultive. Producer Samuel Charters, the noted blues historian,
caught Guy just as he was emerging from the shadow of B.B. King and
Muddy Waters, and provided an excellent cast of supporting musicians,
including the underrated guitar genius Wayne Bennett, gritty piano virtuoso
Otis Spann, and Muddy's redoubtable drummer Fred Below. The results
are blues perfection.
Mark A. Humphrey
From the late 60s, tasty but not as urgent as his Chess material.
Extra Info
The album was recorded at Universal Studio, Chicago
Original liner notes:
For twenty years the south side of Chicago has spawned an ever growing number of blues artists who have added an entire new dimension to the sound of pop music the world over. Buddy Guy, still in his twenties, with a long blues background in his native Baton Rouge, Louisiana and with the best southside Chicago bands, in the new young blues man on the Chicago scene. He's probably the finest guitarist to come along since B.B. King, and he's one of the most exciting singers and performers to be working in any of the blues clubs. This is his first solo album with his own blues band, but his talent has already been excitingly present on the Vanguard blues albums featuring Junior Wells' Blues Band and he has appeared as a feature performer throughout the United States, and - in the last two or three years - in Europe as well. The band is his own group, men that have been working with him for lots of music, with the added sound of Otis Spann, the great blues pianist with the Muddy Waters band. This is the blues today played by the most exciting of the new bluesmen, Chicago's Buddy Guy, with his own Chicago Blues band.