Loz123
6 posts
Dec 31, 2012
7:52 AM
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Just reading Buddy Guys autobiography and iam really enjoying it. Can anyone recommend one of his albums as ive got hoodo man blues with junior wells but iam after another album particularly recorded around the 50s and 60s. Also he talks about how good Earl hooker is and i have non of his stuff. Can anyone recommend one of his albums.
Many thanks and all the best for the new year
Loz
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Kingley
2082 posts
Dec 31, 2012
7:54 AM
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The albums with Buddy Guy are highlighted by a † Junior Wells Discography
I don't think you can go wrong with anything by Earl Hooker. He was a real badass player.
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HTrain
75 posts
Dec 31, 2012
8:41 AM
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On the basis of his comments in the book, I downloaded "Buddy and the Juniors". Love it!! Highly recommend it if you enjoy acoustic none amplified blues. Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, and Junior Mance
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Chickenthief
321 posts
Dec 31, 2012
10:28 AM
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Buddy Guy is easy. Two that I have listened to a lot of over the years: This is Buddy Guy, a very high energy live recording from the 60s. Love it.
Another more recent is: Stone Crazy with Phil Guy, which burns hot from end to end. Both of those recordings are personal favorites, highly recommended.
I have an old vinyl copy of Earl Hooker's There's A Fungus Amung Us. I like it for the funky touches and blues idioms that I'm not hearing in contemporary blues. It has a nice 60s party groove. If you like Booker T then this might work for you. In fact it's worth owning just for the name and the R. Crumb album cover along with the liner notes - "His recorded output is plethoric in ubiquitously occurring as a silent but startling session guitarist" (say WHAT?!?).
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Joe_L
2281 posts
Dec 31, 2012
11:01 AM
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If you are looking for stuff from the 50's and 60's, then you need to look for a 2 CD set containing his complete Chess recordings. There are also compilations on Vanguard which are quite good, too. The Junior Wells Vanguard recordings feature quite a bit of Buddy Guy's guitar work.
Earl Hooker. Start with an album called Blue Guitar. Play Your Guitar, Mr Hooker and Simply The Best features his fabulous guitar work backing some fabulous vocalists.
I really dig Two Bugs and a Roach featuring some really nice hapr playing by Carey Bell and Louis Myers. As Kingley said, you can't really go wrong with anything by Earl Hooker.
The original planned line up for the Buddy and the Juniors album was supposed to be Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and Otis Spann. Unfortunately, Otis passed away before the recording session.
In interviews, Buddy said that Stone Crazy was the first LP where he was allowed to just be himself and do his thing. He also said that about his first Silvertone release, Damn Right I Got The Blues.
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Chickenthief
322 posts
Dec 31, 2012
2:41 PM
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I never heard that about Stone Crazy but that seems to make a lot of sense. The style of playing on that recording sounds like the way that I could imagine him playing those songs if he were at home in his own living room making music with all of his friends. He has a kind of a reserved sound on that album that some great older musicians have in that he can sound so relaxed and be playing all kinds of fiery licks, and all at the same time, and it all comes out sounding so natural.
I've heard some great 15 year old guitar phenoms who could play at a real high level, but I don't think that I've ever heard one of them who could duplicate the sound of that mature ease that certain older masters like Buddy Guy have. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm guessing that you just have to acquire that quality in your sound from age and after many years of playing.
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Joe_L
2286 posts
Dec 31, 2012
4:06 PM
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Buddy has always been pretty deep. Listen to him backing Muddy Waters on the Folk Singer LP. He plays some pretty low down, old school shit and was probably only in his 20's maybe early 30's at the time.
To sound like that you really have to study the old masters. There it's a vibe that those guys had that comes from the old country blues artists. The feel those guys had was present in the music of Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red. To play like that, you have to listen to that kind of music. The current crop of 15 year old guitar wizards can't do it because they don't listen to that kind of stuff.
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6SN7
233 posts
Dec 31, 2012
9:14 PM
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The Chess release "I Was Walking Through the Woods" is an excellent early recording.
"Buddy Guy and Jr Wells Play the Blues" is my favorite.
"The Real Deal" with GE Smith and the Saturday Night Band is a nice choice.
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Kingley
2092 posts
Jan 01, 2013
6:08 AM
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Buddy's playing on Folk Singer is spine tingling stuff. He and Junior Wells also did the CD "Alone and Acoustic" back in the 90's which is a great recording too. Earl hooker also did an album with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. It's called "I Couldn't Believe My Eyes" and features some superb tunes.
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