Buddy Guy (Electric blues, Chicago blues)

Ο Τζορτζ Μπάντυ Γκάυ (George "Buddy" Guy) είναι μπλουζ μουσικός και γεννήθηκε το 1936 στο Λέτσγουορθ (Lettsworth) της Λουϊζιάνα. Θεωρείται σημαντικός εκπρόσωπος των μπλουζ του Σικάγο. Είναι πατέρας της ράπερ Σόουνα (Shawnna) και έχει και ένα γιο, τον Μάικλ.

Ο Γκάυ μεγάλωσε στη Λουιζιάνα και έμαθε να παίζε σε μια αυτοσχέδια δίχορδη κιθάρα (diddley bow). Αργότερα του έκαναν δώρο μια ακουστική κιθάρα Harmony την οποία και δώρισε μεταγενέστερα στο Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Στις πρώιμες επιρροές του περιλαμβάνονται οι Τ-Μπόουν Γουόκερ (T-Bone Walker), Λάιτνινγκ Σλιμ (Lightnin’ Slim) και Λάιτνινγκ Χόπκινς (Lightnin’ Hopkins), μπλουζ μουσικοί και μοναδικοί στυλίστες στο είδος τους. Στην πορεία του χρόνου ανέπτυξε το δικό του staccato, καθαρό και επιθετικό ύφος στην εκτέλεση των solo.

Έπαιξε το 1958 με την μπάντα του Τζον «Μπιγκ Πόπα» Τίλυ (John «Big Poppa» Tilley) στο Μπατόν Ρουζ (Baton Rouge) και την ίδια χρονιά έστειλε την πρώτη του μαγνητοφώνηση στην Chess Records. Κατόπιν έφυγε για το Σικάγο όπου έγινε γρήγορα γνωστός στο κύκλωμα των μπλουζ κλαμπ για το παίξιμο και τη σκηνική παρουσία του. Υπέγραψε στην Cobra Records με την οποία ηχογράφησε λίγα single –με γνωστότερο το «Stone Crazy». Την επόμενη χρονιά η Cobra Records αναδιπλώθηκε ως προς την παραγωγή της και ο Γκάυ μαζί με τους Γουίλι Ντίξον (Willie Dixon) και Ότις Ρας (Otis Rush) στράφηκε στην Chess, όπου ηχογράφησε από το 1960 ως το 1967.

Διαβλέποντας ότι το μπλουζ σε εκείνη την περίοδο κέρδιζε έδαφος στην αγγλική σκηνή ο Γκάυ εγκατέλειψε την Chess το 1968 και υπέγραψε στην Vanguard Records, όπου ηχογράφησε τα κλασικά πλέον A Man and His Blues και Hold That Plane. Το 1970 κυκλοφόρησε από την Blue Thumb το Buddy and the Juniors – (Guy, Junior Wells και ο πιανίστας Junior Mance). Συνεχίζοντας τη συνεργασία του με τον Τζούνιορ Γουέλς (Junior Wells) το 1972 κυκλοφόρησε το άλμπουμ Buddy Guy and Junior Wells Play the Blues. Το 1974 ο μπασίστας των Rolling Stones Μπιλ Γουάιμαν (Bill Wyman) έκανε την παραγωγή –παίζοντας παράλληλα ηλεκτρικό μπάσο στο live άλμπουμ των Γκάυ-Γουέλς Drinkin' TNT 'n' Smokin' Dynamite.

Αν και ο Γκάυ συνέχισε να παίζει μουσική τα επόμενα χρόνια, οι ηχογραφήσεις μειώθηκαν στη δεκαετία του '80. Το γεγονός τον ώθησε να ανοίξει το 1989 το κλαμπ Legends στο Σικάγο, αγαπημένο προορισμό για πολλούς μπλουζ μουσικούς. Η επάνοδός του στις ηχογραφήσεις και τα συμβόλαια έγινε με την παρουσία του στο Royal Albert Hall του Λονδίνου όπου συνάντησε επί σκηνής τον Έρικ Κλάπτον στις περιοδείες της περιόδου 1990-91.

Πλησιάζοντας τα εβδομήντα, ο Γκάυ συνεχίζει τη σκηνική του παρουσία και τις ηχογραφήσεις. Στις νέες κυκλοφορίες του περιλαμβάνονται το Sweet Tea ένα album ηλεκτρικού μπουζ που ηχογραφήθηκε στο Μισισιπή και το ακουστικό Blues Singer, το 2004, επιστροφή σε πρωτοπόρους όπως ο Σκιπ Τζέιμς (Skip James), ο Σον Χάουζ (Son House) και ο Τζον Λι Χούκερ (John Lee Hooker).

Πηγή: Wikipedia

Years Active: 1953 - present

Δισκογραφία: (Albums)
1965 Hoodoo Man Blues
1966 Chicago/The Blues/Today! vol. 1
1966 It’s my Life, Baby!
1967 I Left My Blues in San Francisco
1967 Berlin festival - Guitar Workshop
1968 A Man and the Blues
1968 Coming At You
1968 Blues Today
1968 This Is Buddy Guy (live)
1969 Hot And Cool
1969 First Time I Met the Blues-Python
1970 Buddy and the Juniors
1970 South Side Blues Jam
1971 In The Beginning
1972 Play The Blues
1972 Hold That Plane!
1974 I Was Walking Through the Woods
1979 Got to Use Your House
1981 Stone Crazy
1981 Alone & Acoustic
1982 Drinkin' TNT 'n' Smokin' Dynamite (live)
1982 DJ Play My Blues
1982 Dollar Done Fell
1983 Buddy Guy
1983 The Original Blues Brothers (live)
1985 Ten Blue Fingers
1986 Atlantic Blues: Chicago
1987 Chess Masters
1988 Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago-1979
1988 Breakin Out
1989 I Ain’t Got No Money
1991 Alone & Acoustic
1991 Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
1991 Buddy's Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy
1992 My Time After Awhile
1992 The Very Best of Buddy Guy
1992 The Complete Chess Studio Recordings
1992 Live at Montreaux
1993 Feels Like Rain
1994 Slippin' In
1996 Live: The Real Deal
1997 Buddy's Blues
1998 Buddy’s Blues 1978-1982: The Best of the JSP Recordings
1998 As Good As It Gets
1998 Heavy Love
1998 Last Time Around - Live at Legends
1998 This Is Buddy Guy
1998 Blues Master
1999 Buddy’s Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy
2000 The Complete Vanguard Recordings
2000 Every Day I Have the Blues
2001 20th Century Masters: The Millennium: The Best of Buddy Guy
2001 Sweet Tea
2001 Double Dynamite
2003 Blues Singer
2003 Chicago Blues Festival 1964 (live)
2003 Jammin’ Blues Electric & Acoustic
2003 Live At the Mystery Club
2005 A Night of the Blues
2005 Bring 'Em In
2006 Can't Quit The Blues:Box Set
2006 Live: The Real Deal
2008 Skin Deep

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Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues


Στίχοι:
The first time I met the blues
People, you know I was walkin', I was walkin' down through the woods
Yes, the first time, the first time I met you, blues
Blues you know I was walkin', I was walkin' down through the woods
Yes, I've watched my house burnin' blues
Blues, you know you done me, you done me all the harm that you could
The blues got after me
People, you know they ran me from tree to tree
Yes, the blues got after me
Blues, you know you ran me, ran me from tree to tree
Yes, you shoulda heard me beg ya, blues
Ah, blues, don't murder me

Yes, good mornin', blues
Blues, I wonder, I wonder what you're doin here so soon
Yes, good mornin', good mornin', good mornin', mister blues
Blues, I wonder, I keep wonderin' what you're doin here so soon
Yes, you know you'll be with me every mornin', blues
Every night and every noon¦
Oh, yeah

8 minutes of pure blues....
Buddy Guy - Five Long Years


Στίχοι:
Lord, have you ever been mistreated
Then you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about
Yes, have you ever been mistreated
Then you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about
Lord I work five long years for one woman, and she had the nerve to kick me out

I got a job at a steel mill, I'm shucking steel just like a slave
Five long years, every Friday y'all I went straight home yeah, I went straight home
Mistreated
Then you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about
Lord I work five long years for one woman, and she had the nerve to kick me out

Lord but I finally learned a lesson, I should have known long time ago
The next woman I marry, she gotta have two jobs,
and she gotta go out and work long and bring some dough
Lord, said I been mistreated
And you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about
Lord I work five long years for one woman, and she had the nerve to kick me out

Have you ever been mistreated
Then you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about
Yes, have you ever been mistreated
Then you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about
Lord I work five long years for one woman, and she had the nerve to kick me out

I got a job at a steel mill, I'm shucking steel just like a slave
Five long years, every Friday yes y'all I went straight home,
I went straight home with all my pay
Yes, I've been mistreated
And you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about
Lord I work five long years for one woman, and she had the nerve to kick me out

Lord I finally learned a lesson, I should have known a long time ago
The next woman I marry, she gotta have two jobs,
and she gotta go out and work and bringing home some dough
I've been mistreated, yeah
And you, you know just what I'm talking about
I work five long years for one woman, and she had the nerves to kick me out

Buddy Guy - Skin Deep (feat. Derek Trucks)


Στίχοι:
I've been around a while
I know wrong from right
And since a long time ago
Things been always black and white
Just like you can't judge a book by the cover
We all gotta be careful
How we treat one another

Skin Deep
Skin Deep
Underneath we're all the same
Skin Deep
Skin Deep
Underneath we're all the same
We're all of the same

A man in Louisiana
He never called me by my name
He said "boy do this and boy do that"
But I never once complained
I knew he had a good heart
But he just didn't understand
That I needed to be treated
Just like any other man

Skin Deep
Skin Deep
Underneath we're all the same
Skin Deep
Skin Deep
Underneath we're all the same
We're all of the same

I sat my little child down
when he was old enough to know
I said I fell in this big wide world
You're gonna be all kinda froze
I said son it all comes down to just one simple rule
That you treat everybody just the way
You want them to treat you
Yeah

Skin Deep
Skin Deep
Underneath we're all the same
Skin Deep
Skin Deep
Underneath we're all the same
We're all of the same
Skin Deep
Underneath we're all the same
Skin Deep
Skin Deep
Underneath we're all the same
We're all of the same
Yeah

Buddy Guy - Feels Like Rain


Στίχοι:
Down here the river meets the sea
And in the sticky heat I feel ya' open up to me
Love comes out of nowhere baby, just like a hurricane
And it feels like rain
And it feels like rain

Lying here underneath the stars right next to you
And I'm wondering who you are and how do you do
How do you do, baby?
The clouds roll in across the moon
And the wind howls out your name
And it feels like rain
And it feels like rain

We ain't never going to make that bridge tonight baby
Across lake Ponchartrain
And it feels like rain
And it feels like rain

So batten down the hatch baby,
And leave your heart up your sleeve
It looks like we're in for stormy weather,
That ain't no cause for us to leave
Just lie here in my arms
Let it wash away the pain
And it feels like rain
And it feels like rain