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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Surfgod, I agree the tribute thing has gotten old and seeing him live isn't what it used to be. He is getting old almost 70. Although the last time I saw him he did an acoustic show for the release of Blues Singer, we were front row center it was great.
Artists I want to see move on are The Stones and Areosmith and 99% of the so called musicians I hear played on MTV and my local radio stations, not Buddy Guy. Most of the true Blues Legends that actually lived the Blues have already left us BB and Buddy are two that haven't. They have spent there lives trying to keep the Blues alive by inspiring young artists like Jonny Lang and KWS to keep the tradition going (which they haven't by listening to their latest efforts). I first saw Buddy in the 80's and have seen him almost 20 times since then, and will continue to dish out my $25 to see him and Jonny Lang at the end of this month. As far as Sweet Tea it is actually one of my least favorite Buddy albums it is very bass heavy and it seems to drone on and on it is very hard for me to listen to the whole thing. That's cool you were able to see Bryan Lee I have a few of his Cds and have always wanted to catch a live show, By the way Brian Lee was born in 1945 and Buddy in 1936 age has caught up to him in the last ten years "Done Got Old"!