★★★★★
Buddy Guy is now 76 and can lay claim to special status as a near-sole survivor of Chicago's era of eminence in the 1950s and 1960s.
His muscularity is undiminished and enthusiasm patently undimmed. But why would it dim, when you can fill double-CDs with guests as notable as Beth Hart, Aerosmith, Gary Clark Jr (again!), Kid Rock, and Keith Urban, and then rock all the way to the bank? It's loud, it's brash, it's real and it's utterly exhausting.
- www.independent.co.uk
2013-08-13
★★★★★
Alessio Natalizia of Walls has put together a collection of Italian electronica that includes music from the band 0010110000010011.
Shae DeTar
Ernest Greene is out with a second album as Washed Out, which teases at themes of love and sanctuary with a blend of acoustic and electronic instruments...
- www.nytimes.com
2013-08-14
★★★★★
Alessio Natalizia of Walls has put together a collection of Italian electronica that includes music from the band 0010110000010011.
Shae DeTar
Ernest Greene is out with a second album as Washed Out, which teases at themes of love and sanctuary with a blend of acoustic and electronic instruments...
- www.nytimes.com
2013-08-13
★★★★★
Buddy Guy's musical integrity is not going anywhere. It is firmly cemented in the earth, as sturdy as Chicago's oldest buildings. The anxieties that the great blues guitarist experienced at the dawn of the '90s, a genuine concern for the future of blues music and how its heritage may get lost, are but a footnote now...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-07-29
★★★★★
Buddy Guy's musical integrity is not going anywhere. It is firmly cemented in the earth, as sturdy as Chicago's oldest buildings. The anxieties that the great blues guitarist experienced at the dawn of the '90s, a genuine concern for the future of blues music and how its heritage may get lost, are but a footnote now...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-09-04
★★★★★
A great open secret of the last act of Buddy Guy's career is that nearly every album he's made in the new millennium is a concept album of sorts, ranging from the gnarled modern Delta blues of Sweet Tea and the acoustic Blues Singer to the pseudo-autobiography of 2010's Living Proof. Rhythm & Blues trumps them all in size and concept: it's a double-disc set divided into one disc of "Rhythm" (aka soul) and one disc of "Blues" (aka blues of the Chicago variety)...
- www.allmusic.com
2013-08-12
★★★★★
Buddy Guy, that unceasingly loveable old statesman of the blues, was born for the stage. In the studio, his magnanimity is a liability: Too often he's allowed his raw product to be processed into genre exercises--virtuosic, but canned and glitzed in a manner that obscures the joy and immediacy of his devotion to his craft. The horn charts alone offer scores of teachable moments...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2013-07-29
★★★★★
Buddy Guy's 50-plus-year career has been a testament to a simple premise: playing 12-bar blues as loudly and wildly as possible. It's made him the genre's arch individualist, respected by all and imitated by none. Now, at 76, Guy and a handful of others, such as harmonica player James Cotton, are the last vestiges of Chicago's blues royalty...
- exclaim.ca
2013-07-27
★★★★★
I have never been lucky enough to be in Chicago when Buddy Guy was playing at his blues club. Knowing my luck, I figured I would never get a chance to hear it. But this new release, featuring a set from 2010, does a very good job of replicating the experience. In addition to showcasing Guy's consummate ability to shift from grungy blues chords to fiery rock licks in a heartbeat, the show includes some very affable stage banter with the crowd...
- www.ink19.com
2013-04-01
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