This week I get to see buddy guy.

I guess the title says it all. I get to see Buddy Guy perform this week and I don't think I've ever been this excited about a show. I am seeing a LEGEND this week.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_rd8y8A2oE

 

How great! It's unfortunate to realize just how unexposed I am to the spectrum of live music; I'd love to see a still-living blues artist from such an exceptional era for the art perfom on stage. As unfamiliar as I am with the man's repetoire and reputation 'Buddy Guy' is rather synonymous with post-war blues, by my understanding. I really ought to give him more of a listen. Choice video too, great footage, both of Buddy and the streets of Chicago.

Anyway enjoy the show! I do hope the music delivers.

 

Thanks! Youre right. Buddy was post-war. He was the generation right after Muddy Waters. Actually, Buddy was kinda Muddy's protegé!

 

It's nice knowing so many greats shared a very strong common bond through the craft. I was surprised at how many were learned apprentices of Patton's venerable form, Howlin' Wolf and Son House among them.

Muddy's another sound I've not given the proper time and attention to. Alan Wilson cites him as an outstanding influence, the first bluesman he'd ever heard (there's a thread on Wilson in this forum if you happen to be unaware, precursor of a performer from the blues-revival era). I suppose Muddy was more gospel? Not that it matters, I've just fallen for the more primitive stuff, pre-war Delta and the Sixties revival artists mostly.

 

Please put how it was and if he played some of his old stuff! buddy guy, bb king, muddy water! those are my boys! lol

 

Yeah man I'm a big time of the pre-war stuff. I like what they call ''ragtime blues'' like Blind boy fuller and robert johnson. Can't get much more grass toots than that!

Muddy wasnt gospel at all. Muddy was straight up blues.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqiu-MJCwew

And then his later stuff:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liX7zPV095Q

awwwwwww yeah im feelin that.

It was amazing!
He played some old new, even hoochie coochie by muddy, some hendrix, and he had a 12 year old kid named Quinn Sullivan with him who could reallllly play. All in all it was a good night!

 

Ragtime's fun. There's a youtube channel (RagtimeDorianHenry) that's always uploading real obscure ragtime pieces and pre-war stuff. Real tasty. Maybe 'gospel' wasn't the right term, I don't mean congregated church singing. I remember reading Muddy's idea of the art was that you couldn't sing the blues without going to church; something to that effect. He enjoyed what young, white artists were doing with the music during its revival but thought it lacked the same 'soul' reminisce of reverand bluesmen. I'll stop draggin' this out but dig it you being able to catch one of the few remaining greats. That 'Honey Bee''s something beautiful, and I'm sure I've heard 'Champagne & Reefer' before. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrKUWA2yF24