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Topic: Buddy Guy at the Showbox Return to archive
January 1st, 2006 07:00 PM
Ten Thousand Motels Buddy Guy at the Showbox
Jazz News Jan 1, 2006

Buddy Guy will play at The Showbox with special guest Curtis Salgado at Friday February 17, 2006. Guy's reputation among rock guitar gods such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan was unsurpassed, but prior to his Grammy-winning 1991 Silvertone disc Damn Right, I've Got the Blues, he amazingly hadn't issued a domestic album in a decade.

That's when the Buddy Guy bandwagon really picked up steam -- he began selling out auditoriums and turning up on network television (David Letterman, Jay Leno, etc.). Feels Like Rain, his 1993 encore, was a huge artistically, you must enjoy the twisted concept of having one of the world's top bluesmen duet with country hat act Travis Tritt and rock singer Paul Rodgers. By comparison, 1994's Slippin' In, produced by Eddie Kramer, was a major step back in the right direction, a preponderance of genuine blues excursions. Last Time Around: Live at Legends, an acoustic outing with longtime partner Junior Wells followed in 1998. In 2001, Guy switched gears and went to Mississippi for a recording of the type of modal juke-joint blues favored by Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside and the Fat Possum crew. The result was Sweet Tea: arguably one of his finest albums and yet a complete anomaly in his catalog. Oddly enough, he chose to follow that up with Blues Singer in 2003, another completely acoustic effort that won a Grammy. For 2005's Bring 'Em In, it was back to the same template as his first albums for Silvertone, with polished production and a handful of guest stars.

A Buddy Guy concert can sometimes be an experience. he'll ignore his own massive songbook in order to offer imitations of Clapton, Vaughan, and Hendrix. But Guy, whose club remains the most successful blues joint in Chicago (you'll likely find him sitting at the bar whenever he's in town), is without a doubt the Windy City's reigning blues artist -- and he rules benevolently.
January 1st, 2006 07:41 PM
glencar One of the last ones left.
January 2nd, 2006 05:05 PM
keefjunkie you damn right hes got the blues
January 3rd, 2006 09:32 AM
Water Dragon I can remember seeing him with Junior Wells, back in the '70's...they were dressed to kill and certainly did so with their musical hooks...still ranks up there with seeing Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, and Ron Wood in the late '60's, opening for Janis Joplin! Incredibly high times!

Regards,

W.D.
January 3rd, 2006 10:26 AM
parmeda Buddy plays at his club throughout the month of January...

http://www.buddyguys.com/january.html





Hey tele! Have you picked a day yet?
(...stop grazing the fields in Wisconsin and get your ass back to the city!)

Buddy's not going to live forever, ya know...
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