The Very Best of Buddy Guy

When Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan are treating Buddy Guy as one of the best electric guitar players in the world, the rest of us had best pay attention. This Buddy Guy compilation is a great addtion to a blues collection, with most of the recordings coming from 1960-1970, with the last few from 1974 and 1981. I have to admit it took some time for me to warm up to this music. The songs are not familiar to me as are many by Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf, which were covered by many classic rock bands. The one that opened my ears to the sound is "First Time I Met the Blues." The original studio recording from March 1960 opens the album, and both the guitar and the vocals are manically intense. A later live recording is also included, from 1970, taken at a slower pace with longer solos and enthusiastic crowd participation. Though George "Buddy" Guy got his start in Baton Rouge, after arriving in Chicago in 1958 he quickly became one of the main players in the competitive club circuit. To hear these tracks is to be transported to those Chicago blues clubs in the Sixties. This is indispensable bedrock blues! *** *** *** The 12-page booklet with this 1992 disc includes an informative essay by Bill Dahl and eight photographs, nine total with the one on the back of the disc.

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You're Damn Right I'll Give It 5 Stars!! This is a superb collection of early Buddy Guy. If you love Man and the Blues album sound it's all here and so many other great hits. I prefer his early Strat/Bassman rubber band sounding, wick bends and crazy dissonance chord fragments. His singing in all A Game. #11 First Time I Met the Blues is a show stopper. The intro alone is an unreal display of all Buddy Guy. I bought an import with this song on it that has a longer 2:30min intro but this version starts at 2:30min into the song and is just jaw dropping. I have heard no other guitarist sound like those licks. I would put this next to my Albert King Blues Power album as a desert album. If you only had to pick one album this Buddy Guy selection is an must have.

Bluesy - of course and a good solid album of songs, some of which have been given the full house treatment and makeover later in his second coming type career. Interesting to compare. If you are a fan of Buddy you should get this and make sure you get the album "Stone Crazy" - but if you are a fan you will probabably already have that killer.

I first saw Buddy Guy play in the mid-1980 at a bar in that small Midwestern university town where I went to grad school. In fact, prior to that time, I hadn't really been a blues fan at all. But Buddy Guy made me a blues fan. This is not a live album, but it's one of his best.

Buddy Guy! If you don't know, NOW ya know!! Blues!!!!!!!!!!

Great! Great! Love some Buddy Guy!

Very, very fine selection of Buddy Guy tunes. He doesn't get the credit that he deserves as a blues pioneer.

It would be easy to fill 3 CDs with Buddy's greatest works but his one is still a good selection. I've owned some of this material in the past on vinyl but wanted a digital copy as it contains some of my favorite tracks. The sizzling live "First time I met the blues" is from the very rare 'Chicago Blues' film soundtrack and almost worth the price of the CD along (check out Youtube for the video that goes with it). Some of the other tracks are hard to get now too making this even more worthwhile. Talking of prices, Amazon's own is a bit steep, I used one of the other suppliers under the 'New' link and got it cheaper.

Si gente como Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan,o Mark Knopfler lo incluyen como uno de sus guitarristas de blues favorito dentro de su gusto personal, poco mas puedo añadir. Para la crítica especializada se engloba dentro “Chigago Blues” y este CD que incluyen grabaciones entre los años 60 y 81 con mas de una hora de buena musica; para mí este es uno de sus mejores recopilatorios junto con “The Complete Chess Studio Sessions” o “Buddy's Blues (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection)”. Al estar visible en Amazon la relación de canciones, para mi gusto destacaría estos 3 cortes “Hello San Francisco”, “She Suits Me to a T” o Just Teasin'” . Resumiendo, es de las recopilaciones casi obligatorias que tenemos que tener en cualquier discoteca particular que incluyan todos los estilos musicales.

Buddy Guy has been around since Christ was a corporal, which is saying quite a lot if one considers the casualty rate for blues artists, from natural or artistic causes. Buddy must have had good luck with nature. As a guitarist though, luck has nothing to do with it: Buddy Guy is at the top of the game. This is a collection of his greatest! The list of white blues guitarists who recommend him is filled with all of the usual guitar greats; Clapton appears twice on this album, Bill Wyman is here (having produced a live album of Guy at Montreaux), Dr. John appears on a couple of tracks. But Guy's career is filled with the greats of Chicago blues scene. He and Junior Wells (harmonica) are long associates. Magic Sam got Buddy signed with Chess Records. Otis Spann and Willie Dixon appear on this album, Fred Below, Otis Rush, do too, and many others. Since 1958, Buddy Guy churned out dozens of albums, all with blistering guitar solos of such high quality that he would win guitar battles with Magic Sam in Chicago attended by Muddy Waters and Freddy King. The ultimate credit is that Buddy Guy was the session guitarist at Chess Studios, backing Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williams and Koko Taylor, among others, on their records. He left Chess because he wanted to be the star. You have to hear this album to believe how good he is. First rank guitarist all the way! Great vocals too! This is the blues!

Very good condition. Plays perfectly!

The very best !