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I picked up Buddy Guy "Blues Singer" on a whim and was very pleasantly surprised at Buddy's excellent playing on the acoustic guitar.I've seen him live a few times with his trademark stroll into the audience while wailing viscious licks on his electric guitar. He's quite the showman.
This CD is so much more rewarding to me than what I've previously associated with Buddy Guy. I highly recommend it, and I would appreciate any tips to lesser known, well recorded acoustic blues like this.
Ken
Follow Ups:
A Martin Buddy Guy Signature guitar.
I think it's as ugly as a mans ass.
YECH
... that is one sorry ass looking guitar!! All that gawdy blue just trashes up a beautiful Martin. I've always liked the 3 section rosewood backs. Maybe I'll have one of those in an HD-28 someday (damn prices keep going up!!). Wouldn't mind a Wembley Guild 12 string either. For now, it's a D-28 and a D-15 all mahogany for me :)
Ken
Nobody mentioned Buddy & the Juniors. Acoustic blues from Buddy w/ Jr. Wells & Jr. Mance. I have this lp from like 1970 maybe. It may not be available on CD.
they wore polyester suits and porkpie hats and just played old stuff. No guitar hero shit like I've normally seen him do with his band. Buddy and Junior were awesome. I think I understand exactly what you are saying.
Cheers,
John K
...at Pier 6 Pavillion on the Baltimore Harbor. He opened for the Robert Cray band.I thought this show was enjoyable, but I honestly felt that BG tends to overperform, or go a little pop with his guitar playing. He's a little over-indulgent with his lead guitar riffing. There was a time that I never would have said this when I was younger, but after you see hundreds of players that can loudly improvise the same basic scales, for 30 minutes straight, the long drawn jams start to sound boring. This should not be confused with the more compositional approach (of course there is always some ad-lib'ing involved) which I can find completely engaging. Along with the excessively drawn out jams, Buddy does this thing where he walks throughout the entire audience and onto the outer consourse just wailing away on his electric (wireless). This is kinda cool for a minute or 2, but again it's simply over-done. I think Buddy is doing what he thinks people want to see - and maybe he is getting a new generations of followers that way.
In the end, Buddy is a great blues man when he decides to play the deep heart felt stuff. He is the real thing. That's why I gave the kudos to this wonderful acoustic CD. It is the real thing and I highly recommended it.
Ken
I completely agree.I might get shot for saying this, but when I saw SRV, I thought the same thing. For the first 5-10 minutes, my mouth was hanging open - They guy was a genius. However, after about 5 lengthy solos, I thought the songs were really secondary to his desire to impress with his virtuoso skills.
In the end, I preferred Jimmy Vaughans playing - generally more musical.
Cheers,
John K
and he stunk up the whole waterfront. I don't know if he was drunk or what, but I don't think he played a single song through to the end, he'd just trail off or start mumbling some weird story, leaving his band kind of floundering around to fill things in. I heard the people next to me comment "I'd rather watch the stage crew set up the other stage" as they walked away in disgust. Some of the other performers even commented on it later.
Buddy had his regular backup band and played one or two sets of "guitar hero" blues with them, then went off, got changed and came back on with Junior Wells. The backup band played old style bass and drums accompaniment and let the masters do their stuff.
I saw Buddy again ~ 1998 and he stunk - a third rate SRV impersonator.
Cheers,
John K
I'm really thrilled with the very interesting suggestions you guys have put out here - much better than I expected. There are a good dozen or more suggested here that I will eventually add to my collection. Great stuff, thanks!Another one you guys might be interested in is Dave Van Ronk, "Sunday Street". An older Baltimore blues guy, Red Jones, recommended Van Ronk to me, and told me some stories about personal encounters with him. Van Ronk came out of the Greenwich Village blues and folk scene and is said to be one of the influences over Bob Dylan.
Ken
I have Blues Singer, Folk Singer and the first two (remastered) Taj Mahal CDs, all excellent. I can recommend Olu Dara as well.
very tasty, a little jazzy and good sonics.
I hear Buddy Guy "Blues Singer " and loose it... here's a few recommendations.
None are quite as "audiophile " as BS, but musically solid:John Lee Hooker - "Mojo Hand"
Lonnie Johnson*
Lightnin' Hopkins*
Blind Willie Mctell*
Rev. Gary Davis*
*Anything on BluesvilleAnd check out Bob Brozman "Blues Reflex"
on RUF, different than the other recs. but really great!
"Music is the can-opener of the soul"
Henry Miller.
This of course does not help frozen food fans...
Gary Davis and John Hurt are a few of my favorites. Along those influential lines I have lots of Hot Tuna and Jorma Kaukonen. I have several of their recordings and a few Lightnin Hopkins and John Lee Hooker.Willie McTell has been on my "wish list" so maybe it's about time I try one of his. Thanks for the other suggestions as well.
Ken
pure and simple blues music with no additives.
I have read about this guy from an Acoustic Fingerstyle website I read. He's supposed to be a great talent. Nice suggestion, thanks.
Ken
Check out "Big Moma's Door" by Alvin Youngblood Hart.
It was his first album and is an excellent example of what you are talking about.
Sadly his follow up and subsequent albums changed (he went electric etc) and (in my opinion only) were not so enjoyable.
RL Burnside and Junior Kimbrough are worth checking out (as is the Black Keys EP of Kimbrough songs).
Happy listening.
That's the 2nd endorsement for Burnside and Kimbrough. I plan to check all of these out - thanks.
Ken
listen to any of Doug MacLeod's stuff - great recordings with even better musicnot sure about lesser known - but don't forget Muddy's Folk Singer
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -HST
Two I strong suggest are:
Mississippi Hill Country Blues
and:
First Recordings
On the same label, Junior Kimbrough is an ace as well.
This is not Texas or Chicago blues, it is Mississippi blues, a whole different animal.
Mississipi Hill Country Blues - hmmmmm. Not to be confused with Delta blues I guess. You definitely have some interesting music suggestions on this forum. Thanks, I will check these out.
Ken
how can you go wrong with a label called Fat Possum?
I don't know if he is lesser known, but I
really like Lightnin' Hopkins "Goin' Away"
It's only about 30 min. though.
Featuring an impossibly young Buddy Guy on acoustic.
That's a GREAT recording with incredible sound and superb performances, one of my all time favorites. Spread the word!
"Music is the can-opener of the soul"
Henry Miller.
This of course does not help frozen food fans...
Otis Taylor does an interesting acoustic-urban-folk-protest-blues kind of thing. Super-V is a nice place to start, and has gotten some good press. You can check out some of his stuff at the link below.
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
Thanks for the tip. I've heard of OT before but have never picked anything up or actually read his bio. His sound seems very intersting, and I'd like to check him out. Do you recommend any particular CD?
Ken
I haven't heard his newest, yet. But I really like Double V.
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
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