Skin Deep

It's great to be able to listen to an album of all new originals by the living rock n' roll legend that is Buddy Guy. The music sounds modern and crisp, and I read in an interview that this might be his 'best and most emotional' work and something that he has wanted to create since he was 22 - I agree that this is as good as any Buddy Guy I've listened to. "Out In The Woods' is a killer song in my opinion and so is the album closer "I Found Hapiness"; "Lyin' Like A Dog" has some vicious Buddy Guy blues guitar playing; "Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes" (which contains a solo by a 8 year old kid, he's 9 now I heard) gets emotional for me just hearing the names of all the Blues greats Buddy mentions throughout the song; and as for the title track "Skin Deep", it sees Buddy in his slow tempo, melodic and beautiful way in the vein of "Feels Like Rain". Well summing up there is nothing bad on this album (and everything good about the blues on it) and it's a great enjoyable album that I highly recommend checking out. "Stone Crazy" was released in 1981, "Skin Deep" is how top notch blues music sounds like in 2008.

Buddy Guy will be seventy-two-years-old on July 30th 2008, and he simply defies the hands-of-time. This CD highlights a voice that is as strong as a man half his age. He still effortlessly hits the high notes at absolute full throttle without the slightest sign of effort. The energy that emanates from his guitar, when he "bends" the strings like blues strings were meant to be bent.... has been matched by only a select few guitarists in modern blues history. Guest appearances by Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Robert Randolph, Eric Clapton, and the Memphis Horns, among others, simply helps elevate this CD to a "classic" level.

This CD contains twelve songs totaling approximately fifty-eight minutes of Blues. Included within the twelve songs, are two tunes over five-minutes-and forty-seconds in length... and two songs that are over seven-minutes long. As true electric blue's fans will attest to... once you really get the blues... you need more than five minutes to fully appreciate them.

This release reinforces once again... that... BUDDY GUY... IS THE GREATEST LIVING ELECTRIC BLUES PERFORMER. This is a must buy CD.

This is one hell of a record this man produced here. I allready really liked his last one. This even has more (blues) power in it. Get it you won't regret it!

What A great album. I saw Buddy Guy perform a few of these new songs live the Saturday before the album came out. He was at a Best Buy Store not too far away. Awesome guitar work, great artists performing along side of Buddy.

Really love Show Me The Money......which he did live when I saw him and >>>>great Blues!!!

Well, I waited three years to hear the album that was supposedly going to let Buddy just be Buddy, and play his heart out. Unfortunately, this album is much like his last one, meaning there are three or four excellent electric Blues songs, and a bunch of Blues-Rock and pop music that features duets with various singers. Personally, I don't like anything Eric Clapton has recorded since 1992 or 1994, and I really didn't want to hear him on this album. The stand-out tracks on this brand new disc are "Lyin' Like A Dog", which is one of the best songs Buddy has ever recorded (!), "Out In The Woods" with Robert Randolph, and the closer, "I Found Happiness". It's such a shame that Buddy's record company won't let him just be himself. He promised three years ago, after the release of "Bring 'Em In", that his next album would be pure Buddy Guy. Let's face it: the man is over seventy years old, and while he seems to be in great health, none of us know if we'll make it to seventy-five. I really hope that, on his next album, he's allowed to just be himself, with his regular band. "Stone Crazy" is one of the most manic, frantic, excellent, wild, electric Blues guitar albums in history, and it was done on a shoe string budget and has crappy liner notes, but so what? It's a fantastic album! I suppose Buddy has few options in terms of record companies, as most Blues today has been Fat Possum-ized, and I don't mean that most Blues today sounds like the Callicott, McDowell, and Furry Lewis Fat Possum releases! I wish to God that's what I meant, though. My wish is for Buddy Guy to produce an album of all original material that showcases his greatness. This album just offers us a glimpse of his greatness. Dick Waterman says in "Between Midnight And Day" that Buddy is the greatest electric Blues guitar player in history, and he desperately regrets suggesting to Buddy to play a little Cream and Hendrix at his shows, in order to show people that he's capable of playing that type of music. Will somebody please give us the real Buddy Guy?