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Buddy Guy - The Blues Is Alive And Well (2018)

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 16 Jan 2023 18:32:14

2018 studio album from the great blues man with guests Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck & James Bay. On The Blues Is Alive And Well Buddy Guy delivers a rather extensive collection of material, containing fifteen tracks and clocking in at nearly sixty-five minutes of groove laden music. This is his eighteenth full length studio album. Keith Richards and Jeff Beck play guitar on the song "Cognac", and Mick Jagger plays harmonica on the song "You Did the Crime". The front cover photograph was taken by Chuck Lanza at State Highway 1, Lettsworth, Louisiana where Guy was born in 1936. The Blues Is Alive and Well won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album at the 61st Grammy Awards.

Buddy Guy begins his 2018 album, The Blues Is Alive and Well, by singing "a few good years is all I need right now," an acknowledgment that at 81 years old he's closer to the end of his life than he is to the beginning. This isn't the first time he's made such an admission. Eight years earlier, he opened up Living Proof with a boast that he was "74 Years Young," so his advancing years have been on his mind for a while, but The Blues Is Alive and Well is full of songs charged with mortality. The record is bookended by "A Few Good Years" and the mellow boogie "End of the Line," and Guy muses about "Somebody Up There" and wonders what will happen "When My Day Comes," all the while acknowledging he's "Old Fashioned." That's a lot of songs about life and death, but The Blues Is Alive and Well has a lot of songs in general – a full 15, lasting well over an hour. This excessive length means there's a lot of room for levity, too, including James Bay sitting in for a duet on "Blue No More," Mick Jagger's wailing harp on "You Did the Crime," and, best of all, a showdown with Keith Richards and Jeff Beck on "Cognac." Guy has some good moments on his own, of course – his guitar stings throughout and he can sell the house rocker "Guilty as Charged" with a vigor that belies his age – but the emphasis on ruminative tunes feels a bit heavy-handed. Maybe that's why the album ends with "Milking Muther for Ya," a minute-long dirty joke that punctuates the moody vibes of "End of the Line." Its very presence suggests that Buddy Guy would rather live it up while he still has a few good years left.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

Discogs

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Track List:

01. A Few Good Years [4:48]
02. Guilty As Charged [3:20]
03. Cognac (feat. Jeff Beck & Keith Richards) [5:22]
04. The Blues Is Alive And Well [5:14]
05. Bad Day [3:49]
06. Blue No More (feat. James Bay) [3:39]
07. Whisky For Sale [4:03]
08. You Did The Crime (feat. Mick Jagger) [6:53]
09. Old Fashioned [3:57]
10. When My Day Comes [4:38]
11. Nine Below Zero [6:20]
12. Ooh Daddy [3:17]
13. Somebody Up There [4:28]
14. End Of The Line [3:25]
15. Milking Muther For Ya [0:57]

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Buddy Guy / The Blues Is Alive and Well

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