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The best of Buddy Guy's solo albums since his 1991 reemergence finds him mixing songs from his concert repertoire ("Someone Else Is Steppin' In") with blues chestnuts ("I Smell Trouble") and his own new originals, like the gritty plea for urban spiritual renewal "Cities Need Help". His performance is raw and natural, a nasty throwback to his late-1960s roadhouse days. Guy takes unbridled pleasure in hard playing and vocal shouting that straddles the soul- blues border. The absence of shallow attempts at pop-radio play and the lack of guest appearances by rock stars or emerging bluesmen like Jonny Lang, which plague most of Guy's recent CDs, is refreshing. This is simply Buddy, on his own strong terms. --Ted Drozdowski
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(1994 'Silvertone')(49:51/11) with TOMMY SHANNON, REESE WYNANS, CHRIS LAYTON, JOHNNIE JOHNSON, DAVID GRISSOM, SCOTT HOLT, GREG RZAB, RAY "KILLER" ANDERSON.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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1994's "Slippin' In" from 1994 is an even more genuine blues record than 1991's Grammy award-winning "Damn Right I've Got the Blues".
Sure, it is a shade more antiseptic than Buddy Guy's classic Chess sides, and the clean production has sanded away most of the grit, which is a bit of a shame. But it is still a really fine album. Guy stays away from stereotypical funk and generic day blues-rock shredding and actually plays the blues, and both his guitar playing and his expressive and flexible tenor voice is strong and focused all the way through.
"Slippin' In" features Double Trouble's Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon on several tracks, and none other than the late, great Johnnie Johnson is playing the piano. Johnson was Chuck Berry's pianist for many years, a masterful, versatile musician who plays slow blues, jazz, driving R&B, and punchy rock n' roll with equal briliance. He is a tremendous asset here, and his solo on "7-11" completely takes over the track.
There are plenty of highlights here, and hardly any let-downs at all. Guy has only written three of the eleven songs himself, but he does a good "Don't Tell Me About The Blues" (originally a single for Bobby 'Blue' Bland), enthusiastically and intelligently covers Denise la Salle's wonderful "Someone Else is Steppin' In", and lays down a great, punchy rendition of Jimmy Reed's classic "Shame, Shame, Shame".
His own slow blues "Little Dab-A-Doo" is another highlight, again partly due to the presence of Johnnie Johnson, and Guy's take on Lowell Fulson's "Love Her With A Feeling", and the slow, soulful "Trouble Blues" are very enjoyable as well. Guy gets off a couple of terrific, sizzling solos on Lowell Fulson's song, which he plays like a hard-hitting Muddy Waters-tune.
"Man Of Many Words" is a very obvious rip-off (it's Otis Redding's "Hard To Handle"), and one or two of the other songs have been recorded many times before as well - albeit with different lyrics! But even blues clichés like "Please Don't Drive Me Away" and "I Smell Trouble" are very well executed and played with a passion, and the combined forces of Buddy Guy's axe and Johnnie Johnson's tinkling 88s in particular make "Slippin' In" a really enjoyable album. The grooves are deep and swinging, and Guy himself sounds like he is having a good time.
Fans of genuine Chicago blues, and of Buddy Guy in particular, will not want to miss this one.
Highly recommended!
Sure, it is a shade more antiseptic than Buddy Guy's classic Chess sides, and the clean production has sanded away most of the grit, which is a bit of a shame. But it is still a really fine album. Guy stays away from stereotypical funk and generic day blues-rock shredding and actually plays the blues, and both his guitar playing and his expressive and flexible tenor voice is strong and focused all the way through.
"Slippin' In" features Double Trouble's Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon on several tracks, and none other than the late, great Johnnie Johnson is playing the piano. Johnson was Chuck Berry's pianist for many years, a masterful, versatile musician who plays slow blues, jazz, driving R&B, and punchy rock n' roll with equal briliance. He is a tremendous asset here, and his solo on "7-11" completely takes over the track.
There are plenty of highlights here, and hardly any let-downs at all. Guy has only written three of the eleven songs himself, but he does a good "Don't Tell Me About The Blues" (originally a single for Bobby 'Blue' Bland), enthusiastically and intelligently covers Denise la Salle's wonderful "Someone Else is Steppin' In", and lays down a great, punchy rendition of Jimmy Reed's classic "Shame, Shame, Shame".
His own slow blues "Little Dab-A-Doo" is another highlight, again partly due to the presence of Johnnie Johnson, and Guy's take on Lowell Fulson's "Love Her With A Feeling", and the slow, soulful "Trouble Blues" are very enjoyable as well. Guy gets off a couple of terrific, sizzling solos on Lowell Fulson's song, which he plays like a hard-hitting Muddy Waters-tune.
"Man Of Many Words" is a very obvious rip-off (it's Otis Redding's "Hard To Handle"), and one or two of the other songs have been recorded many times before as well - albeit with different lyrics! But even blues clichés like "Please Don't Drive Me Away" and "I Smell Trouble" are very well executed and played with a passion, and the combined forces of Buddy Guy's axe and Johnnie Johnson's tinkling 88s in particular make "Slippin' In" a really enjoyable album. The grooves are deep and swinging, and Guy himself sounds like he is having a good time.
Fans of genuine Chicago blues, and of Buddy Guy in particular, will not want to miss this one.
Highly recommended!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I've been listening to Buddy for 40 years, he's had a chequered career with albums to match. This is one of his best, better than 'Damm right I've got the blues' with more emphasis on blues than blues-rock, a charateristic of 'Damm right'. His playing reminds me of his 60's 'Hoodoo Man Blues' album. The song material is also strong with good lyrics and catchy melodies, unusual for a blues album where rehashing of well known tunes is the norm. It's available at a knock down price now so even more of a bargain. Get it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Buddy Guy IS blues guitar history, and he has made tons of albums, so some of them stand out. His latest 2010 offering is incredibly good. This 1994 one is a favourite of mine among many. The songs are just amazing, with "shame shame shame", and ... "man of many words" - that Bonamassa has picked up.
There is nothing much to say in this review, except this is MUST HAVE, BUY NOW.
There is nothing much to say in this review, except this is MUST HAVE, BUY NOW.
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