From the Used Bin 4
No, I don't have any idea why someone would sell these--but I sure bought them. Cheap.
I've wanted this one for a while but have never seen it for sale in the racks. JSP recordings from England are semi-rare in California. I love Roy Gaines and think he's very under-rated. This one has his outrageous strutting study of womanizing on it: "Sweet Pig Poker (aka Pig Poking Man)." Hush, Roy's gonna solo now. How does he get his tone to be cutting and mellow at the same time?
Fantasyland: Buddy Guy and Junior Wells have a broken radiator hose and while the guy at the gas station down at the crossroads is fixing it, Buddy and Junior accept our invite under the shade tree and Buddy hauls out his road 6 and 12 string Guilds and he and Junior run through about 15 mostly classic blues tunes.
That's what this 1981 set originally recorded as a quick one-shot for the French Isabel label is like (now on Alligator in North America). If you're looking for flash, this ain't it. It's unpretentious and the guys go downhome and into their memories of the cotton patch. "The big boat's up the river, on a bank of sand, ...." Only for those who've been around the blues for a while, Junior and Buddy play "Catfish", "Rollin' And Tumblin'", "I'm In The Mood (for Love)", "Boogie Children", "My Home Is On The Delta", and a bunch more.
UPDATE: I've now had a chance to listen to it a lot. I've been stealing things from it. Buddy and Junior put on an understated master class for serious blues fans and musicians. Probably not for casual and new fans who don't get the nuance and the simplicity, and the space Buddy and Junior leave. I'd like to change my rating from recommended to highly recommended.
What can I say, more stories from life by the storyteller of the blues. Play 'em Larry! Includes 'politically correct' songs about PMS and the swell life out in the country where everybody steals all your stuff.
I can't go on this way, with my sick love for Irma Thomas. She needs me so much and I'm such a bastard and I hurt her so much and she goes on loving me. Oh God Irma. I won't even try to explain.
I'm not too much of a Northern Soul fan, I likes mine Southern and greasy, But I make a big exception for Marvin Gaye. Must have been his growing up in his Daddy's holyroller church. And some of those early classics are so bluesy--"That's the Way Love Is" is a powerhouse. And the later stuff is great and "Trouble Man" has become a blues standard.
I've wanted this one for a while but have never seen it for sale in the racks. JSP recordings from England are semi-rare in California. I love Roy Gaines and think he's very under-rated. This one has his outrageous strutting study of womanizing on it: "Sweet Pig Poker (aka Pig Poking Man)." Hush, Roy's gonna solo now. How does he get his tone to be cutting and mellow at the same time?
Fantasyland: Buddy Guy and Junior Wells have a broken radiator hose and while the guy at the gas station down at the crossroads is fixing it, Buddy and Junior accept our invite under the shade tree and Buddy hauls out his road 6 and 12 string Guilds and he and Junior run through about 15 mostly classic blues tunes.
That's what this 1981 set originally recorded as a quick one-shot for the French Isabel label is like (now on Alligator in North America). If you're looking for flash, this ain't it. It's unpretentious and the guys go downhome and into their memories of the cotton patch. "The big boat's up the river, on a bank of sand, ...." Only for those who've been around the blues for a while, Junior and Buddy play "Catfish", "Rollin' And Tumblin'", "I'm In The Mood (for Love)", "Boogie Children", "My Home Is On The Delta", and a bunch more.
UPDATE: I've now had a chance to listen to it a lot. I've been stealing things from it. Buddy and Junior put on an understated master class for serious blues fans and musicians. Probably not for casual and new fans who don't get the nuance and the simplicity, and the space Buddy and Junior leave. I'd like to change my rating from recommended to highly recommended.
What can I say, more stories from life by the storyteller of the blues. Play 'em Larry! Includes 'politically correct' songs about PMS and the swell life out in the country where everybody steals all your stuff.
I can't go on this way, with my sick love for Irma Thomas. She needs me so much and I'm such a bastard and I hurt her so much and she goes on loving me. Oh God Irma. I won't even try to explain.
I'm not too much of a Northern Soul fan, I likes mine Southern and greasy, But I make a big exception for Marvin Gaye. Must have been his growing up in his Daddy's holyroller church. And some of those early classics are so bluesy--"That's the Way Love Is" is a powerhouse. And the later stuff is great and "Trouble Man" has become a blues standard.
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