 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website |
 |
| • website |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website |
 |
| • website • view ad |
Share
Music
Robert Christgau
Tuesday, November 29th 2005
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play the Blues
Rhino Handmade
The classic Guy-Wells album remains Delmark's 1966 Hoodoo Man Blues, which is credited to Wells. Runner-up is this relaxed, whiteboy- garnished 1972 set, now augmented with nine previously unissued new songs that fit the bill and four previously unissued alternate mixes that don't. Guy gets major vocal space, top-billed because in 1972 his expansive guitar chops had some racial optimist at Atlantic seeing stardom. He'll never be as distinctive a singer—Wells had a sound. But the older man gave Guy valuable laying back lessons, which he forgets to excellent effect whamming home Little Brother Montgomery's "First Time I Met the Blues."
T-Bone Walker
The Best of the Black & White and Imperial Years
Metro Blue
Basically, Walker invented electric blues guitar. Everybody from B.B. King on down gives him props. But because he came first, he was also transitional—his single-note solos have less brute color and sustain than those of jazz-hip King or roc king Elmore James, and he croons rather than shouts, perhaps a little too subtly. Or perhaps not. The seminal-by-acclamation Black & White sides are seriously outnumbered here by the Imperials, which feature sax sections. But his warm sound is so consistent that only the specialist audience will care.
Recent Articles
More by Robert Christgau
Devils We Know
Serge Gainsbourg, Lara Croft, blue-collar rapper, Saharan exile—meet Cops
Sensualistic, Polytheistic
Miraculously, after 32 years, the New York Dolls do it again
A Month on the Town
The man who's reviewed 12,000 records reviews 32 shows in 30 days
History Lessons
Brazil, Beliz, San Antonio, Soho, Mother Africa—all journeys into paradise
All in the Family
Confused teens, confused thirtysomethings, and old jazz guys enjoying their dotage
Site Search «
Most Popular
-
The Strangest Landlord-Tenant Relationship In Town? Stacked up in cubicles for decades, immigrants living in a Bowery tenement may have a very unusual situation.
-
The Pet-Death Business All dogs go to heaven. Yours will probably get there in an urn.
- We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?
- On Michael Jackson's Mercifully Goofy, Cheerful This Is It
-
The Secret Life of Girls On the latest blog-rock sensation's improbable, somewhat verifiable backstory
| buy, sell, trade 10,183 | musician 3,497 |
| rentals 12,962 | jobs 2,176 |
| adult entertainment 34,820 | |
| classifieds | backpage.com | Post ads for free! | |
|---|---|