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 | Title : Sweet Tea
Author : Buddy Guy
Release Date : 20010515
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $17.98
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Editorial Reviews :
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.
Buyer Reviews :
For this album Buddy Guy traveled to Mississippi, whoever suggested that Guy record there is a genius. The blues of North Mississippi is not the 12-bar blues structure of 'Chicago style' but more of a modal drone, where the artist will 'change' to the IV or V chord when he feels like it. This, I felt, freed Guy's delta spirit and at age 65 has made one his best albums ever.
Four of the nine songs here where written by the late Junior Kimbrough. Kimbrough was a vocalist and guitarist, his tone, enhanced by a ton of reverb and emotional singing is a great example of North Mississippi hill blues. Guy emulated Kimbrough style, while still playing Buddy Guy. The reverb soaked tone of Guy's guitar may turn-off some listeners but I found it exciting. Last but not least, play this album LOUD, this ain't your daddy's blues.
(by William Houston)
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