Confessions of a Fanboy

It took awhile, but I think I’ve found my Monday mojo.  I’ve been looking for the right music for the day all morning and not having a lot of luck.
I started with The Black Keys’ Rubber Factory and Magic Potion.  I really like both albums but neither completely captured my imagination.
Next up was Buddy Guy’s [...]

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The completist in me can finally breathe a sigh of relief. I have it and I’ve heard it.
My copy of Buddy Guy’s The Complete Chess Studio Recordings arrived yesterday and the condition of the 2-CD set is about as good as can be expected for a used album. I certainly feel [...]

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How do things slip through the cracks?  I finished my review of Buddy Guy’s Skin Deep yesterday and in the process of writing it I spent a good amount of time listening to that and other Guy albums.  I was reminded there is one Buddy Guy album — a compilation, actually — that has eluded [...]

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I don’t know why I haven’t thought of this before, mostly because that’s an impossible question to answer.  I’m not a master logician, but I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to know why you didn’t think of something before you thought of it.  I love starting my posts way out here and then somehow finding a [...]

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Rock and Roll and Blues Hall of Famer Buddy Guy returns with Skin Deep, his first studio album since 2005’s Bring ‘Em In. The 72-year-old music icon has, over the course of his illustrious career, won five Grammys, 23 W.C. Handy (Blues Music) Awards, Billboard Magazine’s Century Award, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. [...]

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Where to begin, where to begin? I made the trek to Satan Best Buy and bought my copy of Buddy Guy’s Skin Deep. As much as I loathe that place I have to give them credit for this: they‘re treating Buddy’s new album like a major release. They got a few copies [...]

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Buddy Guy is a National Treasure and the definition of a living legend.  He deserves to be mentioned along with Dylan when people talk about artists who have career renaissances and do some of their most vital work in their advancing years.  Dylan’s Time Out of Mind, “Love & Theft,” and Modern Times stand with [...]

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I’ve been waiting all summer for a week like this.  There are five essential titles being released this week, making up for what has been an otherwise dry summer release schedule.
Even with an active week like this, it says something that four of my five targeted purchases are re-issues and the lone album [...]

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