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. 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 someone. If this were his only recorded legacy, he'd still warrant the stature he's achieved.Well, I waited three years to hear the album that was supposedly going to let Buddy just be Buddy, and play his heart out. Rarely is the blues this heartfelt – and rarer still is it so well played. This is Buddy Guy playing and feeling the blues, pure and simple, without any sense of compromise – and it's all the better for it, putting much of the rest of his catalog into perspective. Critical reception Professional ratings Review scoresĪllMusic gave the album four out of five stars and in the review by Chris Nickson, he commented: It was re-released on CD in 2004 (with another alternate cover), including two more tracks. The 10-track version was released on a remastered CD by JSP in 1994 with an alternate cover. Two of the three new tracks were previously released on Phil Guy's solo albums in 19 ( The Garbage Man Blues and Mellow Down), with Phil singing the lead vocals on these songs. A 10-track LP was released in 1991 by Music Box International in Greece. The original release includes only seven tracks. Longtime drummer Ray "Killer" Allison was back again, and there were two new members in Buddy's band: guitarist Doug Williams (a member of Phil Guy's band), and bassist Mike Morrison (who had played with Junior Wells and Willie Dixon).
Buddy's brother, Phil Guy, was on second guitar. One year after the release of the slicker and funkier Breaking Out, Buddy Guy and his band entered Soto Sound Studio in Chicago and recorded one of the most remarkable blues albums of the 1980s. It was the third in a trio of Guy albums on JSP. 38:17 (LP) / 57:06 (CD 1994) / 63: 00 (CD 2004)ĭJ Play My Blues is the sixth studio album by blues musician Buddy Guy, recorded in December 1981 and released on JSP Records in 1982.
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