Again I will say Blblues68 when Eric Clapton was asked who was the best all around guitarist in the business his answer was Buddy Guy. The problem with these great artists is since they have nothing to prove, why bother working. I saw the Blues Singer tour at the Beacon theater in NYC, and allthough it was a very good show, compaired to his preformance of Sweet Tea I couldn't get into it. I feel the Sweet Tea show was the highest point this Blues Man reached. People wern't cheering as much as ghasping at what an astounding preformance it was. Why not maintain this level of output. I just saw Bryan Lee ( who is also about 70yrs old ) and blind to boot and his show was way better that the last terrible preformance of Buddy Guy at Lincoln center. I think that it is time to move on with this artist.
New Buddy Guy - "Blues Singer"
Anyone else heard this? "Blues Singer", named in tribute to Muddy Water's "Folk Singer" which Buddy played on. This is a fantastic cd. The recording is excellent. I turned it up to a somewhat loud(so says my wife) level, and from the first moment of the first song, "Hard Time Killing Floor", it sounded as if Buddy were in my living room. This album is acoustic with five songs featuring only Buddy on guitar/vocals and Jimbo Mathus on guitar. The second song is John Lee Hooker's "Crawlin' Kingsnake". It has Eric Clapton and BB King as guests. That's right - BB King acoustic. Highly reccomended!
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