BUDDY GUY - STONE CRAZY LP - BEAUTIFUL AND RARE
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I OFFER FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE THIS
RARE ALBUM OF
BUDDY GUY
STONE CRAZY!
He's Chicago's blues king today, ruling his domain just as his idol and mentor Muddy Waters did before him. Yet there was a time, and not all that long ago, when Buddy couldn't even negotiate a decent record deal. Times sure have changed for the better: Guy's first three albums for Silvertone in the '90s all earned Grammys. Eric Clapton unabashedly calls Guy his favorite blues axeman, and so do a great many adoring fans worldwide. High-energy guitar histrionics and boundless on-stage energy have always been Guy's trademarks, along with a tortured vocal style that's nearly as distinctive as his incendiary rapid-fire fretwork. He's come a long way from his beginnings on the '50s Baton Rouge blues scene; at his first gigs with bandleader Big Poppa John Tillley, the young guitarist had to chug a stomach-jolting concoction of Dr. Tichenor's antiseptic and wine to ward off an advanced case of stage fright. But by the time he joined harpist Raful Neal's band, Guy had conquered his nervousness.
Guy journeyed to Chicago in 1957, ready to take the town by storm. But initially, times were tough, until he turned up the juice as a showman (much as another of his early idols, Guitar Slim, had back home). It didn't take long after that for the new kid in town to establish himself. He hung with the city's blues elite: Freddy King, Muddy Waters, and Magic Sam, who introduced Guy to Cobra Records boss Eli Toscano. Two searing 1958 singles for Cobra's Artistic subsidiary were the result: "This Is the End" and "Try to Quit You Baby" exhibited more than a trace of B. B. King's influence, while "You Sure Can't Do" was an unabashed homage to Guitar Slim.
When Cobra folded, Guy wisely followed Rush over to Chess. With the issue of his first Chess single in 1960, Guy was no longer aurally indebted to anybody. "First Time I Met the Blues" and its follow-up, "Broken Hearted Blues," were fiery, tortured, slow blues brilliantly showcasing Guy's whammy-bar-enriched guitar and shrieking, hellhound-on-his-trail vocals.
Although he's often complained that Leonard Chess wouldn't allow him to turn up his guitar loud enough, the claim doesn't wash: Guy's 1960-1967 Chess catalog remains his most satisfying body of work. A shuffling "Let Me Love You Baby," the impassioned downbeat items "Ten Years Ago," "Stone Crazy," "My Time After Awhile," "Leave My Girl Alone," and a bouncy "No Lie" rate with the hottest blues waxings of the '60s. While at Chess, Guy worked long and hard as a session guitarist, getting his licks in on sides by Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Koko Taylor (on her hit "Wang Dang Doodle").
Upon leaving Chess in 1967, Guy went to Vanguard. His first LP for the firm, A Man and the Blues, followed in the same immaculate vein as his Chess work and contained the rocking "Mary Had a Little Lamb," but This is Buddy Guy and Hold that Plane! proved somewhat less consistent. Guy and harpist Junior Wells had long been friends and played around Chicago together and they toured together throughout the '70s, their playful repartee immortalized on Drinkin'TNT n' Smokin'Dynamite, a live set cut at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival.
Guy's reputation among rock guitar gods such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughn was unsurpassed, but prior to his Grammy-winning 1991 Silvertone disc Dam Right, I've Got The Blues, he amazingly hadn't issued a domestic album in a decade. That's when the bandwagon really picked up steam: he began selling out auditoriums and turning up on network television.
A Buddy Guy concert can sometimes be a frustrating experience. He'll be in the middle of something downright hair-raising, only to break it off abruptly in midsong, or he'll ignore his own massive songbook in order to offer imitations of Clapton and Hendrix. But Guy, whose club remains the most successful blues joint in Chicago (you'll likely find him sitting at the bar whenever he's in town), is without a doubt the Windy City's reigning blues artist, and he rules benevolently.AN AUST ISSUE ON ALLIGATOR LABEL RELEASED BY AVAN-GUARD IN 1981 - AL 4723
THE UNLAMINATED SLEEVE LOOKS REALLY BEAUTIFUL. THE OPENING EDGE, THE SEAMS AND THE SPINE ARE CLEAN AND SHARP. THERE IS A VERY LIGHT CREASE IN THE SPINE AND THERE IS A LIGHT CREASE IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER. THERE IS A LITTLE VERY LIGHT RING WEAR.
THE SHINY VINYL IS BEAUTIFUL - ALMOST LIKE NEW - JUST ONE OR TWO VERY LIGHT MARKS
PLAYS LIKE IT LOOKS - BEAUTIFUL - LOUD AND CLEAN.
THE LABELS ARE BEAUT TOO - ONE OR TWO LIGHT SPINDLE MARKS - NO WRITING - NO STICKERS.
TRACKS ARE:
I SMELL A RAT == ARE YOU LOSING YOUR MIND? == I'VE BEEN GONE TOO LONG == SHE'S OUT THERE SOMEWHEE == OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN == WHEN I LEFT TOWN.
EXTREMEY HARD TO FIND A COPY OF THIS
RARE ALBUM
IN ANY CONDITION
THIS ONE HAS A REALLY BEAUTIFUL SLEEVE AND
THE SHINY VINYL PLAYS BEAUTIFUL.
HAPPY BIDDING FANS
ALL RECORDS COME IN NEW DUST COVERS AND ARE SECURLY PACKED IN SPECIAL MAILERS WITH NEW BUBBLE WRAP FOR EXTRA PROTECTION DURING TRANSIT.
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR UNINSURED ITEMS THAT ARE LOST OR DAMAGED IN THE POST
INSURANCE IS RECOMMENDED.
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