Track Listing 1. Hard Time Killing Floor 2. Crawlin' Kingsnake - Guy, Buddy & Eric Clapton/B.B. King 3. Lucy Mae Blues - Guy, Buddy & Eric Clapton 4. Can't See Baby 5. I Live The Life I Love 6. Louise McGhee 7. Moanin' And Groanin' 8. Black Cat Blues 9. Bad Life Blues 10. Sally Mae 11. Anna Lee 12. Lonesome Home Blues
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Dennis Herring | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Personnel: Buddy Guy (vocals, guitar); B.B. King, Eric Clapton, James "Jimbo" Mathus (guitar); Tony Garnier (upright bass); Jim Keltner (drums); The Perrys (sound effects).Recorded at Sweet Tea, Oxford, Mississippi.Going beyond the stripped-down arrangements of 2001's SWEET TEA, Buddy Guy picks up an acoustic guitar to cut a record that comes across as an off-the-cuff homage to mentor Muddy Waters, whose similar 1963 outing FOLK SINGER featured Guy's guitar work. From the minute this Mississippi native affects a falsetto on Skip James's "Hard Time Killing Floor," neck hairs remain standing on end for the better part of BLUES SINGER. The remainder of these dozen carefully selected tracks find the blues legend rifling through the canons of favorites like Robert Nighthawk (a loping "Anna Lee"), Willie Dixon (the brash "I Live the Life I Love"), and Johnny Shines (a spirited "Moanin' and Groanin'"). Eric Clapton joins in for a tasty take on Frankie Sims' "Lucy Mae Blues" and B.B. King makes three for an acoustic blues summit on John Lee Hooker's seminal "Crawlin' Kingsnake." Though far from the raucous outings fans have come to expect, this collection of acoustic blues is a creative success and yet another stellar addition to Guy's already impressive discography.
Editorial Reviews 4 stars out of 5 - ...Guy sounds simply magnificent, whether he's high and haunting on 'Hard Time Killing Floor' or deep and sonorous on 'Crawlin' King Snake'...Living Blues (11/03, p.69) - ...He doesn't need anyone's help to make this disc a masterpiece - he takes care of that on his own... Uncut (11/01/2003)
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