Buddy Guy

Artist:  Buddy Guy
Birth Name:  George Guy
Born:  July 30, 1936.  Lettsworth, Louisiana, USA
Genre:  Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Blues
Occupations:  Musician, Songwriter
Instruments:  Guitar, Vocals

Buddy Guy is an American Blues Guitarist and Singer.  He has influenced Blues Guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page  Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Mark Knopfler.  In 1960s he was a member of Muddy Waters' Band and he had a long musical partnership with Harmonica player Junior Wells.  He was ranked 30th in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarist of All Time.

Title:   First Time I Met The Blues 1958-1963 Recordings  (2018)
Genre:  Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Blues
Label:   Soul Jam Records
Rating:    *****

Format:   CD:

Tracks:

 1.  Baby Don't You Wanna Come Home  (2:34)
 2.  Try To Quit You, Baby  (2:38)
 3.  First Time I Met The Blues  (2:20)
 4.  When My Left Eye Jumps  (3:53)
 5.  Slop Around  (2:07)
 6.  I Got A Strange Feeling  (3:06)
 7.  Let Me Love You Baby  (2:53)
 8.  Hully Gully  (3:06)
 9.  Watch Yourself  (4:03)
10. Stone Crazy  (7:10)
11. Hard But It's Fair  (2:25)
12. I Got My Eyes On You  (2:21)
13. Skippin'  (3:23)
14. I Found A True Love  (6:18)
15. The Treasure Untold  (2:03)
16. Ten Years Ago  (2:38)
17. American Bandstand  (2:02)
18. You Sure Can't Do  (2:40)
19. Baby (Baby, Baby, Baby)  (2:10)
20. Sit And Cry  (3:01)
21. That's It  (2:41)
22. Good Things (feat.  Jesse Fortune)  (2:45)
23. Broken-Hearted Blues  (3:18)
24. Too Many Cooks (feat. Jesse Fortunes)  (2:55)
25. This Is The End  (2:57)

Format:   LP:

Side 1:

 1.  Baby Don't You Wanna Come Home  (2:34)
 2.  Try To Quit You, Baby  (2:38)
 3.  First Time I Met The Blues  (2:20)
 4.  When My Left Eye Jumps  (3:53)
 5.  Slop Around  (2:07)
 6.  Let Me Love You Baby  (2:53)
 7.  Hully Gully  (3:06)
 8.  Watch Yourself  (4:03)

Side 2:

 1.  Hard But It's Fair  (2:25)
 2.  I Got My Eyes On You  (2:21)
 3.  Ten Years Ago  (2:38)
 4.  The Treasure Untold  (2:03)
 5.  American Bandstand  (2:02)
 6.  You Sure Can't Do  (2:40)
 7.  Baby (Baby, Baby, Baby)  (2:10)
 8.  Too Many Cooks (feat. Jesse Fortunes)  (2:55)

 9.  This Is The End  (2:57)

Personnel:

Buddy Guy:  Lead Vocals, Electric Guitar
Junior Wells:   Harmonica on Tracks:  7, 16
Otis Rush:  Guitar on Tracks:  2,  20, 25
Willie Dixon: Bass on Tracks:  2, 18, 20, 25
Jack Meyers:  Bass on Track on Tracks:  3-9, 10-17, 21, 22, 23, 24
Otis Spann:  Piano
Little Brother Montgomery:  Piano on Tracks:  3, 5, 7, 8, 10-14, 16, 23
Fred Below:  Drums
Bob Neely:  Tenor Saxophone on Tracks:  2, 3, 5 7, 8, 10-14, 16, 23
Donald Hankins:  Baritone Saxophone on Tracks:  3, 5, 7, 8, 10-14, 16, 23
Phil Guy:  Piano on Track 1
Ike Turner:  Guitar on Track 18
Harold Burrage:  Piano on Tracks:   2, 18, 20, 25
Carlson Oliver:   Tenor Saxophone on Track 18, 25
McKinley Easton:  Baritone Saxophone on Tracks:  2, 18, 20, 25
Odie Payne:  Drums on Tracks:  2, 18, 20, 25
Matt Murphy:  Guitar on Track 16
Fred Below:  Drums on Track 3, 5, 7, 8, 10-14, 16, 23
Lefty Bates:  Guitar on Tracks:  4, 6, 9, 15, 17, 19, 21
Jarrett Gibson:   Tenor Saxophone on Tracks:  3, 5, 7, 8, 10-14, 16, 23
Lafayette Leake:   Organ on Tracks:  Organ on Tracks:   4, 6, 9, 15, 17, 19, 21, Piano on Tracks:  22, 24
Phil Tomas:  Drums on Tracks:  4, 6, 9, 15, 17, 19, 21
Abbe Locke:  Tenor Saxophone on Tracks:  6, 9, 17, 19, 21
Gerry Gibson:  Tenor Saxophone on Tracks:   4, 15
Murray Watson:  Trumpet on Tracks:   4, 6, 9, 15, 17, 19, 21
Sonny Turner:   Trumpet on Tracks:  4, 6, 9, 15, 17, 19, 21
Jesse Fortune:  Lead Vocals on Tracks:  22, 24
Big Walter Horiton:  Harmonica on Tracks:  22, 24
Willie Smith:  Drums on Tracks:  2, 24

First Time I Met The Blues 1958-1963 Recordings is the compilation album by Buddy Guy, original released in 1969 by Python Records, remastered and reissued released on October 29, 2018 on CD, and remastered and resissued  on August 31, 2018, by Vinyl Lovers on LP, including 16-page booklet, rare photos with details liner notes.