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Buddy's Blues

By: Buddy Guy
Label: Commercial Marketing
Released: 20 Feb 2003
RRP: £5.99
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The very best of Buddy Guy's Chess sides - By: Docendo Discimus, 17 Apr 2004
If you're only going to buy one Buddy Guy-album, I'd probably go with Rhino's career-spanning "The Very Best Of Buddy Guy".
But this one is pretty much a must-have as well. Rhino's disc does include a handful of Guy's Chess sides, but his years at Chess were arguably his best period, & this excellent 15-track compilation brings together the cream of the crop.

These classic 60s recordings burn with unbridled passion - just listen to the smouldering slow blues "Leave My Girl Alone" & "I Cry And Sing The Blues". George "Buddy" Guy is one of the very few bluesmen whose vocals (occationallly) match the intensity of the great Elmore James, & his guitar playing is superb - an obvious source of inspiration to men like Eric Clapton & Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Also, the sound on this anniversary compilation is magnificent. Excellent transfers & spacious stereo mixes make these forty-year old recordings sound as sharp as anything you'll ever hear coming off the laser beam. If you are into 60s electric blues, this is a must-have purchase.