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Buddy's Baddest: the Best of Buddy Guy | 
| Artist: Buddy Guy
Label: Silvertone
Category: Music
Buy New: £9.54
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 75960
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5013705912320
ASIN: B0000258OU
Release Date: May 7, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Damn Right I've Got The Blues | | • | Five Long Years | | • | Mustang Sally | | • | Rememberin' Stevie | | • | She's A Superstar | | • | Feels Like Rain | | • | She's Nineteen Years Old | | • | I Smell Trouble | | • | Someone Else Is Steppin' In (Slippin' Out Slippin' In) | | • | My Time After Awhile | | • | Midnight Train - Guy, Buddy & Johnny Lang | | • | Miss Ida B | | • | I Need Your Love So Bad | | • | Innocent Man |
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| Editorial Reviews:
From Amazon.com
The title's baloney. Sure, some of Buddy Guy's most blistering guitar playing has been captured on his '90s recordings for Silvertone, but with albums like Muddy Waters's 1964 Folk Singer and his own 1967 solo debut A Man & the Blues on his résumé, Guy's status as a Chicago blues giant was assured long before his 1991 comeback Damn Right, I've Got the Blues. Nonetheless, that tune, the instrumental tribute "Remembering Stevie" (for the late guitar-slinger Vaughan), "Five Long Years," and the previously unissued "Miss Ida B" testify that at age 65 Guy still possesses rare depth and fire. His singing is big and soulful, capable of cheerleading a party or hurtling down to the depths of Delta blues heartache. His six-stringing remains wildly inventive and unpredictable, even on slight numbers like "She's a Superstar." And the inclusion of blatant stabs at the pop charts such as his "Midnight Train" duet with Jonny Lang take nothing away from the passion he puts into true blues performances like "I Need Your Love So Bad" and "Innocent Man," leftovers from earlier sessions that surface here. Baddest or not, this CD spotlights one of our greatest bluesmen in fine form. --Ted Drozdowski
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| Customer Reviews:
 The baddest Blues in town February 13, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am relatively new to blues music but when I first heard the power of Buddy's voice not to mention his guitar playing, I was instantly hooked. From the down and dirty blues of the opening track of 'Damned right I got the Blues' Mr Guy demonstrates his talent through out the compolation, his soulful singing on 'Miss Ida B' combined with his soulful playing creates an ambience of great strength and soul. The cover of 'Need your love so bad' is a brilliant version of a song previously thought to have been perfected by Fleetwood Mac, Buddy once again proves that things are not always as they seem. His strong bluesplaying is many times complemented by his lyrics, many of which seem to be filled with dark humour and irony, such as the excellent 'Five long years'where he announces that he 'has worked five long years for one woman and now she's had the nerve to kick me out'. If you are a fan of the Blues Brothers, Eric Clapton or are simply a fan of the blues you will love this collection. Once you have heard this CD you will want to buy all his others, trust me
 The best? Not really March 9, 2004
Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This overview of Buddy Guy's Silvertone recordings ought to be titled "Some of the best of Buddy Guy's 90s tunes, and a few throwaways as well", or something along those lines.The first ten songs are almost all good, but the four previously unreleased songs aren't among Guy's best work, and since almost all of the previously released material here is taken from just three albums, there is really no good reason to pick up this mediocre sampler. Go with "Damn Right I've Got The Blues" and "Slippin' In" instead, and perhaps the "Feels Like Rain" album, from which "She's Nineteen Years Old" and of course "Feels Like Rain" are taken.
Only one track comes from the forgettable "Heavy Love", which is actually a credit to the compilers, and the last one, the live "My Time After Awhile", is from "Live: The Real Deal". If you want an overview of Buddy Guy's career prior to his 90s comeback, go for Rhino Records' excellent "The Very Best Of Buddy Guy", or check out the best of his classic Chess singles on MCA/Chess' "Buddy's Blues". This is a decent sampler, but considering that it only spans four studio albums, one of which is bland at best, it is not really that much of a necessity.
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