New Buddy Guy - "Blues Singer"

Bombayawalla,
Its a shame that Sweet Tea is not aviable on vinyl.Get it
on CD as soon as possible. Just try not to laugh out loud at the review that is on the cover. Andy Ellis from Guitar Player Mag. states "anyone who understands Tom Waits or Portishead will immeditately understand the brooding spooky esthetics" NO this CD is Juinor Kimbrough kicked up
several notches. If you want some decent Buddy Guy vinyl pressings that are cheap get his Alligator pressings.
P.S. does anyone know what a Portishead is ?

Unfortunately, Buddy has only two entries in the Alligator catalog: "Stone Crazy" and "Alone and Acoustic," the latter, of course, is shared with Junior Wells.

It's a shame, because both of these recordings are arguably his best performances. I believe that Buddy and Bruce Igueler (sp?) of Alligator had a bit of a falling out, and Buddy did not have a record release in the U.S. for over 10 years--a true crime. And I just don't get it because Albert Collins had all the support in the world from Alligator; what made Buddy so different? Alone and Acoustic sat in the can until "Damn Right I Got The Blues"--on Silvertone--was released. I guess Alligator finally believed that it had a "viable product." Don't you just "LOVE" the record industry??? It's things like this for which Buddy need make no apologies.

I hate to say it but the last two times that Buddy Guy was in NYC he was a big dissapointment. Yes I am an advid blues fan especially the Chicago electric style. The last ( and I do mean last time I will see him ) was at Lincoln center with a host of stars. All Buddy Guy did is come out with his pokka-dotted pants & matching guitar and promote some young kid who wasn't that good, or at least needed more practice to stay on stage with that lineup. He stood up and just strummed some notes to the music. Buddy Guy runs hot and cold. What is traditional for him is to do a tribute to past blues artists in music. The first time it was good, by the 4th time you are sick of it. If I had a nickel for every time I him say " Its so Funky in here I can Smell it " I could retire. Most of Buddy Guys' material is very good, but Sweet Tea just shows what new hight he can easily attain, and I wish he would stay at that level.

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.

Again I will say Blblues68 when Eric Clapton was asked who was the best all around guitarist in the business his answer was Buddy Guy. The problem with these great artists is since they have nothing to prove, why bother working. I saw the Blues Singer tour at the Beacon theater in NYC, and allthough it was a very good show, compaired to his preformance of Sweet Tea I couldn't get into it. I feel the Sweet Tea show was the highest point this Blues Man reached. People wern't cheering as much as ghasping at what an astounding preformance it was. Why not maintain this level of output. I just saw Bryan Lee ( who is also about 70yrs old ) and blind to boot and his show was way better that the last terrible preformance of Buddy Guy at Lincoln center. I think that it is time to move on with this artist.