Can't Quit The Blues

Blues | Nov 2006

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The Byrd of Paradise
Reviewed 2006-11-23
A 50-year retrospective of one of the architects of modern electric blues guitar. Stingin' guitar solos, screaming blues vocals. The toughest backup band in the blues.

1. Laidback, lowdown moanin' harp
2. Cryin' horns & voice
3. BB King style walk
4. Swingin' - jumpin' instr.
5. Classic screamin' Buddy Guy
6. Lowdown & laidback - moanin' harp
7. Marchin' midtempo - tuff horns
8. Serious finger work - screamin' vocals
9. Stinging guitar - moanin' organ
10. Buddy backing JR Wells
11. JR sings - low & slow - hauntin'
12. Foot stompin' boogaloo - tuff horns
13. Lowdown - slow & haunting
14. Swingin' T-Bone Walker classic
15. Live slow blues with JR.
16. Buddy "Fast Fingers" Guy - lowdown
17. Foot stompin' electric slide
18. Slow BB-style blues

CD 2:
1. Fuzz tone guitar - lowdown walk, Buddy scrams
2. Loud, big band cover of rock classic
3. Serious slow blues - nice guitar work
4. Ray Charles Mambo to shuffle
5. Buddy sing with wailin' harp
6. Lowdown haunting slow blues
7. Sweet, soulful duet with Bonnie Raitt
8. BB-style slow blues
9. Screamin' vocals - moanin' guitar
10. Stompin' drivin' live R & B classic
11. Lowdow & stinging guitar
12. Driving - midtempo w/breaks
13. Rocked out duet w/Johnny Lang
14. Buddy cuts loose - instr.

CD 3:
1. Modern Buddy - great lyrics over marchin', bluesy drive
2. Droaning bass, hypnotic march
3. Just Buddy and his guitar - cool
4. Midtempo march - Buddy wails
5. Screamin' over-drivin' guitar
6. Buddy plays acoustic and sings
7. More of the same - cool stuff
8. Lowdown acoustic blues -- ooohhh!!
9. Buddy shufflin' live - acoustic
10. Classic live electric blues
11. Buddy covers soul classic with some cheesy synth...
12. Haunting, slow acoustic & electric blues
13. Buddy does Al Green to the Stones
14. Buddy wah wah - tuff walk
15. Deep soul stroll

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Track listing

1. The Way You Been Treating Me
2. Sit And Cry
3. This Is The End
4. Untitled Instr
5. First Time I Met The Blues
6. Ten Years Ago
7. Let Me Love You Baby
8. Stone Crazy
9. When My Left Eye Jumps
10. Hoodoo Man Blues
11. In The Wee Hours
12. I Can't Quit The Blues
13. One Room Country Shack
14. T-Bone Shuffle
15. When You See The Tears From My Eyes
16. I Smell A Rat
17. She Suits Me To A T
18. Dj Play My Blues
19. Damn, Right I've Got The Blues
20. Mustang Sally
21. Five Long Years
22. Mary Ann
23. She's Nineteen Years Old
24. Miss Ida B
25. Feels Like Rain
26. 7-11
27. I Smell Trouble
28. Someone Else Is Steppin' In
29. My Time After While
30. Your Mind Is On Vacation
31. Midnight Train
32. Totally Out Of Control #
33. Nobody Understands Me But My Guitar
34. Baby Please Don't Leave Me
35. Done Got Old
36. Honey Bee
37. Tramp
38. Crawlin' Kingsnake
39. Moanin' And Groanin'
40. Bad Life Blues
41. I Can't Be Satisfied
42. First Time I Met The Blues
43. I'd Rather Be Blind Crippled And Crazy
44. Somebody's Sleeping In My Bed
45. I Miss You
46. Cut You Loose
47. The Price You Gotta Pay