Buddy Guy

First Time I Met the Blues 1958-1963 Recordings (BLUES)

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First Time I Met the Blues 1958-1963 Recordings

Buddy Guy

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BLUES

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First Time I Met the Blues 1958-1963 Recordings

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CD 9,95 €

This quintessential collector’s edition contains 25 remastered studio tracks, consisting of a variety of the sensational early recordings Buddy Guy made for Chess, Artistic and USA Records between 1958 and 1963. Some of the material here isn't available on other collections, nor have these seminal numbers ever been previously compiled on one CD. This is an indispensable set which defines the exact nature of the Chicago electric blues style.

PERSONNEL:

BUDDY GUY, lead vocals and electric guitar, plus:

Junior Wells (harmonica), Otis Rush (guitar), Willie Dixon, Jack Meyers (bass),
Otis Spann, Little Brother Montgomery (piano), Fred Below (drums),
Bob Neely (tenor saxophone), Donald Hankins (baritone saxophone), among others.

Recorded in Chicago, between 1958 and 1963.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01 BABY DON’T YOU WANNA COME HOME
02 TRY TO QUIT YOU, BABY
03 FIRST TIME I MET THE BLUES
04 WHEN MY LEFT EYE JUMPS
05 SLOP AROUND
06 I GOT A STRANGE FEELING
07 LET ME LOVE YOU BABY
08 HULLY GULLY
09 WATCH YOURSELF
10 STONE CRAZY
11 HARD BUT IT’S FAIR
12 I GOT MY EYES ON YOU
13 SKIPPIN’
14 I FOUND A TRUE LOVE
15 THE TREASURE UNTOLD
16 TEN YEARS AGO
17 AMERICAN BANDSTAND
18 YOU SURE CAN’T DO
19 BABY (BABY, BABY, BABY)
20 SIT AND CRY
21 THAT’S IT
22 GOOD THINGS – vocals by Jesse Fortune
23 BROKEN-HEARTED BLUES
24 TOO MANY COOKS – vocals by Jesse Fortune
25 THIS IS THE END

TOTAL TIME: 77:25