finetune artist: Buddy Guy

Eric Clapton once called Buddy Guy "the greatest blues guitarist ever." Guy, along with contemporary Magic Sam, took the sounds of Chicago blues of the 1950s and ratcheted them up a notch, in the process creating a new form of controlled blues mayhem. Born in Louisiana, he moved to Chicago as a young man in 1957 and served an apprenticeship with Chicago blues king Muddy Waters while getting his own solo career underway. Guy's frequent collaborations with harmonica player Junior Wells are among his best work.

Listen to Buddy Guy at Finetune.

(2007) Heavy Love
(2007) Vanguard Visionaries
(2006) This Is
(2006) Hold That Plane!
(2006) My Time After Awhile
(2006) Can't Quit The Blues
(2005) Bring 'Em In
(2005) Damn Right, I've Got The Blues
(2003) Blues Singer
(2003) Blues Singer
(2001) Sweet Tea
(2001) Sweet Tea
(2001) 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best of Buddy Guy
(2000) The Complete Vanguard Recordings
(1999) Buddy's Baddest: The Best Of Buddy Guy
(1999) Buddy's Baddest: The Best Of Buddy Guy
(1998) As Good As It Gets
(1998) Heavy Love
(1998) As Good As It Gets
(1997) Blues Master
(1997) Buddy's Blues
(1996) Live! The Real Deal
(1996) Live! The Real Deal
(1994) Slippin' In
(1993) Feels Like Rain
(1992) The Complete Chess Studio Recordings
(1991) Damn Right, I've Got The Blues
(1991) Damn Right, I've Got The Blues
(1990) A Man And The Blues
(1990) I Was Walkin' Through The Woods
(1988) Left My Blues In San Francisco
(1972) Play The Blues

Mustang Sally
Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
Feels Like Rain
First Time I Met The Blues
Five Long Years

Ledbetter on 2008-10-07 10:00:31.787:
I saw him live in at a festival in 2008, he hit notes on guitar I did not know were possible. We were at a street venue and he was playing for an ampitheater, the Blues washed over like a tidal wave. No one I have ever seen plays the blues like that, Buddy Guy Live is an experience that an album never comes close to.