Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Skin Deep is the 2008 release by Buddy Guy. The album features The Memphis Horns, Willie Mitchell,Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Eric Clapton, Robert Randolph and Quinn Sullivan.
Editorial Product Review: :Robert Cray says that Buddy Guy's guitar solos sound like laughter from space, but they can also peal like the cries of lost souls attempting to cross the River Styx. If these 47 songs on three CDs plus a DVD boasting a new 75-minute documentary and six performances from the Montreux Jazz Festival prove anything, it's that Guy is one of the most dynamic, diverse, expressionistic, and emotional guitarists--in any genre. The set neatly examines the 70-year-old Chicago blues legend's half-century career, starting with ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:2005 INDUCTEE TO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME! BRAND NEW, EXPANDED EDITION OF BUDDY’S GRAMMY-WINNING, GOLD-CERTIFIED RELEASE! To celebrate Buddy Guy’s newest and bluest accolade, Silvertone Records is pleased to announce the Expanded Edition of his breakthrough Grammy-winning, gold-certified release, Damn Right, I’ve Got The Blues (Best Contemporary Blues Album). This special edition includes 2 tracks previously unavailable in the U.S. – in fact, formerly released as b-sides in the U.K. The album cover will be true to the original, but ...
Editorial Product Review: :The title's baloney. Sure, some of Buddy Guy's most blistering guitar playing has been captured on his '90s recordings for Silvertone, but with albums like Muddy Waters's 1964 Folk Singer and his own 1967 solo debut A Man & the Blues on his résumé, Guy's status as a Chicago blues giant was assured long before his 1991 comeback Damn Right, I've Got the Blues. Nonetheless, that tune, the instrumental tribute 'Remembering Stevie' (for the late guitar-slinger Vaughan), 'Five Long Years,' and the previously unissued ...
Editorial Product Review: :The Chicago blues legend's recent divorce is weighing on his mind, if 'Somebody's Been Sleeping in My Bed' and 'Now You're Gone' are to be believed. That's bad for Buddy Guy, but good for his fans, who, on these contemplative, regretful numbers, get treated to some of Guy's most sweetly improvisational and melodic guitar since his '60s hallmark A Man and the Blues. There's slash 'n' burn, too, as he gunfights with Carlos Santana on 'I Put a Spell on You' and squeezes pure ...
Editorial Product Review: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: GUY,BUDDYTitle: SWEET TEAStreet Release Date: 05/15/2001DomesticGenre: BLUES 's Best of 2001: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 ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007. essential recording:Cut during a period when Buddy Guy was rarely recorded, this blustery and breathtaking live set is full of idiosyncratic solos that dart after virtually any musical urge that strikes him. Such unpredictable improvisational impulses are more familiar to jazz than blues, but along with his whisper-to-scream singing, that's what makes Guy commanding onstage. His fevered take on the standard 'Outskirts of Town' is outright incendiary. ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007. essential recording:Cut during a period when Buddy Guy was rarely recorded, this blustery and breathtaking live set is full of idiosyncratic solos that dart after virtually any musical urge that strikes him. Such unpredictable improvisational impulses are more familiar to jazz than blues, but along with his whisper-to-scream singing, that's what makes Guy commanding onstage. His fevered take on the standard 'Outskirts of Town' is outright incendiary. ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording: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 ...
Editorial Product Review: :Trying to boil down a prolific 40-year career into 18 songs is an impossible task, but that doesn't stop Rhino from taking a shot. To its credit, this single-CD compilation reaches across many labels, highlighting Guy's explosive work for Chess and Vanguard in the 1960s, Atlantic in the 1970s, and diverse labels in the 1980s. On the other hand, his Chess and Vanguard work deserve significantly more attention than they're given here. In addition, Guy's rejuvenated 1990s work for Silvertone is completely ignored. The ...
Usually we're fans of Logitech's gaming mice, but its highest-end G9 Laser Mouse is expensive, overly complex, and lacks the ergonomic thought we've come to expect. If you like to brag about dot-per-inch limits, perhaps the G9's 3,200dpi laser will be enough to sell you, but for the price, we expect the design to match.
