One of the all time greats of blues has just popped up on NPRs Tiny Desk Concerts. Well worth 20 minutes of your time.
Not bad going for someone that’s pushing 90 years old !
I still love the fact that he played acoustic guitar on Muddy Waters ” Folk Singer” – one of my all time favourite albums.
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and the video….
Can’t believe he’s still going! Saw him play live in a bar in Chicago about 20 years ago and he felt old then. Still had the magic though.
Will give this a listen.
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells “Going Back”. Recorded and released 1981 on Isabel Records in France, later re-released 1991 on Alligator Records in the USA, as “Alone and Acoustic”. A fantastic record.
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Astounding. In a blues doc I remember coming on telly as a teen Buddy was the young buck the baton was being passed on to from Muddy and Wolf.
Thanks for that splendid BUDDY GUY session..
From Washington to Singapore and now to Stockholm…..The glories of the global village,
Here’s another wonderfully enjoyable TINY DESK SESSION from 11 days ago.
Jill Scott and her band are clearly very chuffed to be doing a TD session and their joy is extremely infectious.
There is so much hatred, intolerance and preposterous sycophancy in Trump’s America.
Three cheers for NPR and musicians like BUDDY GUY, JILL SCOTT and also BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN for giving us another version of the USA.
Dig this. From around the epiphanic, if that is a word, time I saw them as a callow youth. Magnificent pimp coat of Buddy’s.
His guitar is curiously underpowered in the Tiny Desk clip.
I first encountered Buddy Guy on the Blues Vol.1 elpee in 1963 or thereabouts, with First Time I Met the Blues. Completely gobsmacked I was – he stood out even in that company. The horns were the icing on the cake.
Love this guy. Pun intended.
I touched him once. At a blues fest at Crystal Palace in the early ‘90’s. He was doing an end of set long guitar lead audience walk around and he brushed past me mid-solo.
I saw him again in I think 2000 at the Festival Hall and he was magnificent. He didn’t play one song all the way through. He’d either segue into another or tell anecdotes and play riffs and snippets of others. He had us all in raptures. A superb raconteur.
He stole the show at one of Clapton’s Crossroads charity festivals, ending the night coming on stage and dropping like a stone into a funked up ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’. It doesn’t seem to be on YouTube anymore but here’s similar from his handsome prime.
There’s a full length documentary on YouTube…..
I memorably saw him appear with The Stones in a small theatre in Boston in 2002. An unforgettable night.
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-rolling-stones/2002/orpheum-theatre-boston-ma-7bd6a2f0.html
Buddy Guy is one of the absolute greats, a very unusual Blues guitarist whose sound is so clean and his mastery of so many techniques beyond compare.
Apologies for the self indulgence, but the Feature on Hoodoo Man Blues didn’t get much traction.