Buddy Guy - Skin Deep
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Free Music Review: Buddy is Tight and His Playing Is His Best NOW
Hit: 4 Stars
I am on the fly-just have to rave how much better Buddy sounds with his singing and guitar playing. Buy it.
Clapton has been a teacher to the teacher-as BG has great time in his solos-
I like how BG lists all the solo guitars on each track.
Get it.
Free Music Review: Solid Buddy Guy
Hit: 4 Stars
If you're a fan, or even if you're not - this is a rockin'-good release.Free Music Review: Great Moments Only
Hit: 3 Stars
Buddy Guy remains one of the few artists that I actually track CD release dates. Silvertone has done wonders for his well deserved career creating some of the best music regardless of preference for blues or guitar rock.
The first half of this CD is terrific, especially the first two tracks- a classic, paint peeling Buddy jam followed by a great ensemble with Trucks and Tedeschi. My interest faded over the second half of the disc and I started to wonder where my copies of Sweet Tea, Slippin' In and Feels Like Rain had gone. Good but not great.
Free Music Review: When Will The Real Buddy Guy Be Allowed To Breathe?!?
Hit: 2 Stars
Well, I waited three years to hear the album that was supposedly going to let Buddy just be Buddy, and play his heart out. Unfortunately, this album is much like his last one, meaning there are three or four excellent electric Blues songs, and a bunch of Blues-Rock and pop music that features duets with various singers. Personally, I don't like anything Eric Clapton has recorded since 1992 or 1994, and I really didn't want to hear him on this album. The stand-out tracks on this brand new disc are "Lyin' Like A Dog", which is one of the best songs Buddy has ever recorded (!), "Out In The Woods" with Robert Randolph, and the closer, "I Found Happiness". It's such a shame that Buddy's record company won't let him just be himself. He promised three years ago, after the release of "Bring 'Em In", that his next album would be pure Buddy Guy. Let's face it: the man is over seventy years old, and while he seems to be in great health, none of us know if we'll make it to seventy-five. I really hope that, on his next album, he's allowed to just be himself, with his regular band. "Stone Crazy" is one of the most manic, frantic, excellent, wild, electric Blues guitar albums in history, and it was done on a shoe string budget and has crappy liner notes, but so what? It's a fantastic album! I suppose Buddy has few options in terms of record companies, as most Blues today has been Fat Possum-ized, and I don't mean that most Blues today sounds like the Callicott, McDowell, and Furry Lewis Fat Possum releases! I wish to God that's what I meant, though. My wish is for Buddy Guy to produce an album of all original material that showcases his greatness. This album just offers us a glimpse of his greatness. Dick Waterman says in "Between Midnight And Day" that Buddy is the greatest electric Blues guitar player in history, and he desperately regrets suggesting to Buddy to play a little Cream and Hendrix at his shows, in order to show people that he's capable of playing that type of music. Will somebody please give us the real Buddy Guy?Free Music Review: Extremely Disappointing
Hit: 2 Stars
This is an extremely disappointing record, featuring tons of filler and four good songs: "Best Damn Fool", "Out In The Woods", "I Found Happiness", and the wonderful "Lyin' Like A Dog". The rest of the album is plagued by Eric Clapton turning in tons of cheezy lyrics and vocal lines, Susan Tedeschi adding a definite pop element to the disc, a duet with Buddy and young Quinn which amounts to nothing more than rattling off a list of Blues legends, and a 1980s-style power ballad called "Skin Deep". Buddy Guy is seventy-two years old and we don't know how much longer he'll be with us. His record company is obviously clueless as to what to do with him, and if, as Buddy alleges, he had a strong hand in producing this album and writing its material, he needs to stop writing for Blues-Rock audiences and start writing for Blues audiences. I've made numerous comments on numerous people's reviews for this album, and nobody has made any sense at all in their rebuttals. I am not harping on the fact that this album is a disappointment because I dislike Buddy Guy or think that all reviewers are retarded; I am wondering why, after two-plus years of promises from the great Buddy Guy, we're left with less than half a record. One would think that Marshall Chess produced this mess.