Buddy Brings "Em In Big Time!

After hearing "Dreams to Remember" I had to buy this CD. Sure, we all know how great Buddy's playing is; heck--he's been at it for years. But now that he has reached a riper age I feel he's doing what he wants to do and bringing in songs that influenced and moved him early on. The CD plays well from start to finish and restarts just as evenly, so you can let it play over and over again without ever growing tired. To the blues purists I say, let go if it (even Robert Johnson was playing to the popular audience if you beleive Elijah Wald's theory as I do). If there is one flaw in this CD is it the rote version of "Ain't No Sunshine" where Tracy Chapman sounds as if she never even entered the same recording studio as Mr. Guy--but then I found her duet with B.B. King equally lacking: she should stick with her fast cars songwriting skills. In a society that worships name recognition, who are we to blame the music industry for peppering CDs with these types of pairings anyway? We are what we buy, so "Buy This!!!!"

***1/2. Some good soul and R&B from Mr Guy, but not a whole lot of blues

Buddy Guy plays some smouldering lead guitar on songs like "Somebody's Sleeping In My Bed" and "Cut You Loose", perhaps the two best songs on the album, but unfortunately there's one mediocre song for every great one here.

Not my cup o' sweat tea, but this guy is still the baddest MF on earth!

I'm not into the whole combining artists here and there to try to win a grammy, but Buddy still makes this cool. I love all his 60's stuff as well as almost every album he's ever done. Sweet Tea is him sounding his best ( a must have in anyone's record collection). If you've never had the chance to see Buddy live GO NOW! It's worth whatever you have to pay. You'll see why Hendrix worshipped the guy.