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Music CD - Buddy Guy: Sweet Tea
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Music CD: Sweet Tea
Artist: Buddy Guy
List Price: $13.98
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Manufacturer: Jive
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Tracks:
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1. Done Got Old
2. Baby Please Don't Leave Me
3. Look What All You Got
4. Stay All Night
5. Tramp
6. She Got The Devil In Her
7. I Gotta Try You Girl
8. Who's Been Foolin' You
9. It's A Junlge Out There
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0012414175120
Label: Jive
Manufacturer: Jive
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Jive
Release Date: 2001-05-15
Studio: Jive
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Absolutely AMAZING!
Comment: This CD is one of my top 10! It's so organic and raw, but it's rock, blues, psychadelic, you name it! Buddy sings so great, shreds, lets it all hang out. He talks the band through some of the changes, he's talkin' to the engineer and they just leave it in. I love it, it's like we were in the control room watchin' 'em lay it down. And the opener "Done Got Old," on acoustic guitar is too cool! Get it, get it, get it!
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Summary: Guy's Still Got It On Sweet Tea
Comment: On Sweet Tea, Buddy Guy tries to channel some of the Mississippi delta country blues with great results. He covers a number of songs from fellow blues legend Junior Kimbrough.
Songs like Done Got Old, I Got To Try You Girl, and Tramp show that Guy still possesses the licks, chops, and voice to deliver the blues in houserocking fashion. Guy still scorches on almost every cut.
Sweet Tea proves that Buddy Guy is not resting on his living legend laurels, but still making thrilling, bone-chilling blues.
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Summary: Not for me, but...
Comment: This is going to be a strange review. Being from Chicago and have had the pleasure and opportunity of meeting Buddy a few times, I was very excited for this release. I've really tried to get into this disc, but I just can't ... it's just not for me.
Most people familiar Buddy's recent work, I'm talking about his string grammy dominating string of titles through the 90's know that this record is a departure from his normal material. Even Buddy himself mentioned at one point or another that he was concerned or uncomfortable with this material.
Even if I don't like this record much, I still have to admire the change of pace. You could probably string Damn Right, Feels Like Rain, Slippin' In and to a certain extent, Heavy Love into one big record that have very similar sounds to them. This record flips everything upside down, takes a bit of a risk and I admire that.
If you ever get a change to see Buddy live, go for it. His personality and energy is such a joy to watch. He truly loves what he does, and plays every show like it's his last. There will never be an entertainer as unique and exciting as Buddy Guy. So even if this disc is not for me, you might dig it! So Buddy, keep experimenting and your fans will always be along for the ride!
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Summary: bitter never sounded so sweet
Comment: i chose to review this , not because im a big Buddy Guy fan , but because i love this album. it has one of the best sounds ive heard on a blues album. words like Raw,Spacious,Haunting,Uneasy,Tense,and definitely Dark come to mind. its a very humid, sweaty sound , kinda like sitting outdoors on some hot evening down south, looking out over the swaying cattails and swarms of mosquitoes.
alongside Buddys heavily distorted strat bending/empassioned singing, loose drum beats,and massive sludgy bass , you can hear the bullfrogs, gators,owls,and all the other creatures of the dank ,dark seedy swamps nodding in agreement.not literally of course , but theyre here in spirit, Buddy himself sounding plaintive and wise in his latter years. i mean that in the best possible way , i prefer this to his older stuff by far , just because im more a fan of Country Blues than Chicago Blues. these are all ( but 1 ) covers of the Mississippi hill countrys better known blues artists, mainly Junior Kimbrough, but Buddy puts his reverant stamp on these songs ,making them his own, the way Jimi Hendrix did to'Watchtower','Hey Joe' etc. its one of my favorites , especially if youre into guitar Playing, and if youre fed up with some of the more slick watered down blues that've polluted the scene the last few years.
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Summary: burning sexual blues
Comment: The fact that this album gets such mixed reviews proves that Mr. Guy effectively pre-eulogized a style of blues (Northern Mississipi) that is sadly dying with the rural culture and raw lifestyle from which it was born. Sex, food and alcohol relieved oppression and hard labour in that area in those times and music to dance to at juke-joints was the embodiment and freedom of that life. To see the likes of T-Model Ford in his 80's getting lascivious embraces from young female audience members at recent shows proves the essense of the music and the feelings which create it. Buddy Guy is still vigorous for his age and starting the album with the "old man" song; then breaking into some of his heaviest playing ever over a militia drum-beat proves his point. This work is a masterful homage to the true roots of blues music and should be seen for what it really is... burning sexual blues from a very human, non-corporate era, when people enjoyed (or did not) each other; not things.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Very few artists have attempted--or succeeded in--improving the standard template for classic blues records set some 40 years ago in the golden age of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. Perhaps R.L Burnside's recent heavily produced work on Fat Possum Records has come closest to adding an original slant. On his new album, Buddy Guy looks to the same source for inspiration; seven of the nine songs here are written by Fat Possum's hill-country blues roster, including T-Model Ford and Junior Kimbrough. Working with producer Dennis Herring (Counting Crows, Jars of Clay) and a small collective of Mississippi-based musicians, Guy sings with a passion that can only come from the same source as the songs. The noise generated in the studio through vintage amplifiers has a live and dangerous feel to it. The acoustic opener, "Done Got Old," does not prepare the listener for the colossal aural assault of "Baby, Please Don't Leave Me." Fading in on a percussion track, Guy's guitar hits its cat-strangling best and never looks back, while the voice sounds energized, vital, and wholly contemporary. Through the 12-minute "I Got to Try It, Girl" to the closing Guy composition "It's a Jungle Out There," Sweet Tea has all the hallmarks of a classic blues album, mixed with a twist of the new. --Rob Stewart
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