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MGood
August 1, 2025
Excellent
RogueHeHeHe
July 18, 2025
My favorite blues album, hands down.
c.burke
June 28, 2025
Excellent playing by Buddy Guy.Love this CD.
The Procrastinator
May 25, 2025
This is a great album but short. About 38 minutes long. Don't let the release time fool you either. It was made in the mid to late 60's as far as I know and you can tell by the sound quality. It is clear sounding but some of the louder songs sound very compact. This album contributes 4 slow blues tunes. Five of Nine tracks are Guy originals. I have to say that the track called Just Playing My Axe is not as good as I expected and though I can't place it, it sounds exactly like some rock song I have heard. Anyway there is one other guitarist on here named Wayne Bennet but he is only a rythm guitarist and due to the slow blues songs he doesn't seem to show up much. Whether this is a plus or minus for you there are horns but they aren't usually much more than background through out the album. Buddy also covers Jules Taub, Berry Gordy, and the great B.B. King. Sweet little Angel is one of the best Buddy tracks that I've heard. Buddy is very restrained and much more polished on this album than on many others. He doesn't really go ''out there'' Like he normally does but his tasteful leads and solos are still terrific. It's part of the greatness of this album. By the way- the legendary Otis spann plays piano on this album and that is a major contribution, and he compliments Buddy Guy very well. The old tune known as Mary Had a Little Lamb is a Stevie Ray Vaughan favorite and is a light hearted song that shows Buddy being his playful self. One Room Country Shack is a blues classic as well as A Man And The Blues and this is pretty near a perfect recording for it's time period and style. If you like Buddy Guy or if you want a toned down example of this great guitar player and vocalist to fit your tastes, than this is perfect. If you want a harcore version like the one that influenced Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton so much- than get Stone Crazy-which is an example of that Buddy Guy style.
Roger Alburn
April 13, 2025
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."
Simon
April 5, 2025
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.
Mr. K. Sinclair
February 25, 2025
...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.
uwe sand
February 19, 2025
Alles BESTENS ............
Amy
February 11, 2025
This is old school blues at its best. Excellent recording as well. If you like Buddy just a little, this needs to be in your collection.
David
February 5, 2025
I couldn't be happier.The album sounds great, all the corners of the cover are perfect owing to the double boxing. It arrived quickly from USA.
Cliente
January 10, 2025
En cuanto al intercambio comercial todo correcto,en tiempo y forma.Es todo un clásico y una referencia en su genero,y no es de extrañar.Blues muy denso,a la vez que vivaz.Es una pena que los medios de grabación de entonces no pudiesen exprimir toda la fuerza y calidad de este trabajo...no se pierdan a este artistaaquellos que no le conozcan...que serán pocos!
FastHand
December 26, 2024
I bought this album as Walter Trout recommended it as one of his favorite albums and I was'nt disappointed. I can see how Eric Clapton was influenced by Buddy and to some extent has a similar style. The guitar playing is very subtle and most of the tracks are long slow soulful blues with some great piano playing by Otis Spann. It was released in 1968 and probably influenced most of the great British guitar players of the time E.C. jeff Beck, Peter Green, John Mayall, Jimmy Page etc.It's a wonderful piece of nostalgia but above all it's a great blues album by one of the great guitar blues players.
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