- Audio CD (Aug 5 2008)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Vanguard Records
- ASIN: B000000EJW
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | LP Record
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#19,701 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #87 in Music > Blues > Regional Blues > Chicago Blues
- #88 in Music > Blues > Chicago Blues
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Product Details |
Track Listings
| 1. A Man And The Blues |
| 2. I Can't Quit The Blues |
| 3. Money (That's What I Want) |
| 4. One Room Country Shack |
| 5. Mary Had A Little Lamb |
| 6. Just Playing My Axe |
| 7. Sweet Little Angel |
| 8. Worry, Worry |
| 9. Jam On Monday Morning |
Product Description
Amazon.com essential recording
Buddy Guy's greatest album is also his debut full-length session as a leader. "One Room Country Shack," "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (a Stevie Ray Vaughan favorite), "Sweet Little Angel," and "Worry, Worry" are defining songs, full of high-wire vocal dynamics and guitar work of almost balletic poise. The tone of Guy's 1957 Fender six-string remains the benchmark for nearly every blues player who's since hefted a Stratocaster. This CD is as tasteful and dramatic as Guy's 1990s performances are brash and assaultive. Producer Samuel Charters, the noted blues historian, caught Guy just as he was emerging from the shadow of B.B. King and Muddy Waters, and provided an excellent cast of supporting musicians, including the underrated guitar genius Wayne Bennett, gritty piano virtuoso Otis Spann, and Muddy's redoubtable drummer Fred Below. The results are blues perfection. --Ted Drozdowski
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Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
The music is probably 4 .5 stars BUT....
Jun 14 2004
Format:Audio CD
...The production leaves a lot to be desired. Im a big fan of the production on mid 60's to mid 70's recordings, but although my version of this album is remastered, somebody must have forgotten to mic the drummer!
Normally you get drums of a reasonable volume in one speaker (and bass in the other) in records recorded around this time, which is no big problem. However the drums (which are only present in the right speaker) are so quietly recorded that the rhythm of all of the songs is lost.
Fred drums like a funky mutha on Mary Had a Little Lamb, but it's barely audible.
Another reviewer suggests that the tracks were recorded before 68, so perhaps thats part of the problem. However when you listen to, say Hoodoo Man Blues, which was recorded with Buddy and Junior in 1965 you'll notice that the sound quality is very good in comparison.
My feeling is that this album was just badly produced and was probably mixed down on a four track recorder, so the remastering couldnt bring the drums out in the mix....
I just want to warn others of this flaw, because for me it almost ruins the album. On a positive note, I use the word almost, because the band are first class, as is the music.
This album should be a classic. Many consider it to be, and musically they're correct. But it makes for a dissapointing listen to my ears. Get something else by Buddy, preferably with Junior Wells, as all their recordings are of far superior quality to this.In fact the Vangaurd recordings Buddy did are all a bit lacking in dynamics.
If youre a guitar student though, you'll find much on here to enjoy, as the guitar rings loud and clear throughout and has a much cleaner tone than the later recordings.
A Man and the Blues... In Full
April 7 2002
Format:Audio CD
This album does a bunch of things. It is perhaps the seminal work of what musicologists call "second-generation Chicago blues." This is the blues form which remains the template for most popular blues produced today. In these performances, Mr. Guy alloys soul and rock figures with the Chicago blues vernacular. As a result, his album released blues to a truly pan-racial and cross-generational following. Most had never witnessed real blues music before. Mr. Guy's fret-board work illustrates the liquid tone possible from that pre-eminent electric guitar, the Fender Stratocaster. His technique transducts the passions of his elders uncorrupted. We hear them today from the hands of hundreds of young guitarists. This is the record that certified Buddy Guy's career. He is arguably the most original blues performer alive.
For some listeners this album has been something of a millstone around Mr. Guy's neck. His successive albums never reached the elegance of this one. Need they? Today, thirty-five years afterwards, blues production values have evolved. Mr. Guy's blues are evolving too. His 2001 release "Sweet Tea" blends the sensibilities of rap and alternative with the newly fashionable product called "electric Delta." "Sweet Tea" hasn't the irreducible beauty of "A Man and the Blues." Yet it does show Buddy Guy's intensity as synthesist and artist little diminished.
Some would eject Bach or Mozart into space for other civilizations to evaluate us with. I'd send "A Man and the Blues."
Buddy Guy with the frenzied funked up Blues!
Jun 14 2001
Format:Audio CD
Buddy Guy at the Beginning of the Frenzied, no restraints playing and singing which his true fans enjoy! He is on fire here! Play him over and over at The Crazy Coyote Blues Power Show 1490 KOTY AM Yakima Nation Reservation Radio in south central Washington state.
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