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| Musicomh |
 It must be sublime to be a musical legend. At least that's how Buddy Guy makes it seem, as Living Proof portrays Buddy's gratitude for his existence with a furious showcase of his ability to devastate his guitar.Much of this is down-the-line blues rock, which isn't surprising considering he's often cited as starting the genre by pushing blues songs and solos beyond their traditional three minute mark. The opening guitar solo of 74 Years Young is a thrash of chords that would probably be too heavy for the radio. It's spectacular. Living Proof also documents a life with honesty. In Thank Me Someday, Buddy counters his family's original complaints about the noise he would make as a kid on his home made guitar. He stomps his blues and increases the volume in his solos as a tongue-in-cheek who's-laughing-now to the parents. There is charm in spades across these tracks, even when he brags, as in On the Road ("Got a blue Mercedes/with a snakeskin top") it's stuffed with humour ("This ride of mine/got a ramblin' soul/got a bar inside/to keep my cold cuts cold")....full text |
| Blogcritics |
| Drive to Natchez, MS, from Baton Rouge on the most popular route and you’ll miss Lettsworth, LA. Cross the Mississippi River in Natchez and before you know it, you’ll be in Ferriday, LA; home of Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Howard K. Smith. Lettsworth is about sixty miles south of Ferriday and a plantation near there is where Buddy Guy was raised. Probably not many people from Lettsworth have won Grammys — Buddy Guy owns five of them. He has also won the Blues Music Award twenty-eight times along with many other awards. He came in at number thirty on Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” and great stars such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughn have credited him with having influenced them. Not bad for a Louisiana man. Well, I suspect Chicago has a rightful claim to him, too, but were it not for those many practice sessions on the levee in Louisiana, well, he may have never made it up the river to the Windy City. Drummer/producer, Tom Hambridge, co-wrote the tracks on Living Proof along with Buddy Guy based on notes he took during their conversations, so the lyrics take on a biographical tone. In fact, they do tell the Buddy Guy story as he reflects on his life, career, and his place in history. Listeners who are familiar with Hendrix and Clapton, but not as much so with Guy will feel like they’ve been listening to Buddy Guy for years. Even a casual listener can see the influence he’s had with Hendrix and Clapton. It begins right off the bat, a minute and a half into track one. Shut your eyes and you can see Hendrix setting a Stratocaster on fire!...full text |
| Bbc |
| The legendary pioneer of the Chicago blues turned 74 in July this year, and he’s determined to show that he’s still in fine voice, and – more even importantly – that he’s still one of the most exhilarating and inventive guitarists in the world. "I’m 74 years young, there’s nothing I haven’t done / I’ve drunk wine with kings and The Rolling Stones," he notes cheerfully on the opening track, as he switches from a solid, slinky acoustic guitar riff to a sudden, furious and attacking solo that provides an instant reminder of why he is so special. Here, after all, is an artist who started out in Louisiana, moved to Chicago to be influenced by the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, and played with such passion and fury that some blues purists criticised his furious guitar work as "noise" – though this style influenced and impressed blues-rockers from Hendrix to Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and, of course, The Rolling Stones. A semi-autobiographical album like this can easily become an exercise in self-congratulation and nostalgia, but it succeeds because of the sheer quality and variety in the playing. After bragging about the fine condition that he’s still in, he switches to Thank Me Someday, a reminiscence of his early life, back on a Louisiana plantation, where he drove his family mad as he taught himself to play on a self-made two-string guitar. It starts with a compelling riff that echoes Howlin’ Wolf, and then switches to another blistering, screeching and exuberant guitar solo. Then he switches styles yet again with the upbeat On the Road, which provides another reminder that blues can be cheerful as well as sad, and there’s a further mood change for the thoughtful and emotional Stay Around a Little Longer. Here he’s joined by another blues legend, B.B. King, for a slower, soulful, gospel-tinged ballad on which the two great veterans congratulate themselves on how good they still sound. That may seem horribly mawkish, but they mean what they say and the result is a friendly, poignant little piece of blues history....full text |
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