Stone Crazy

Stone Crazy

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<"b0000009xp7580"> Amazon.com essential recording
Cut during a period when Buddy Guy was rarely recorded, this blustery and breathtaking live set is full of idiosyncratic solos that dart after virtually any musical urge that strikes him. Such unpredictable improvisational impulses are more familiar to jazz than blues, but along with his whisper-to-scream singing, that's what makes Guy commanding onstage. His fevered take on the standard "Outskirts of Town" is outright incendiary. This album was originally released on Isabel, a French label named--at the singer-guitarist's insistence--after his late mother, who never had a chance to see her son perform. --Ted Drozdowski

<"b0000009xp5228"> From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
The headachy speed-jumble guitar in the opening track, "I Smell a Rat," scared blues purists away from Guy's 1979 French session when it surfaced stateside on Alligator in the early 1980s. Too bad. If they'd hung on through the Jimi Hendrix simulacra and magnific postures they'd have found the album closer, 'When I Left Home," utterly riveting for its raw, sincere bloodletting. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993

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