Jazz and Blues Lounge

A Random YouTube Performance: Buddy and the Kid

by balaspa on May 19th, 2008

Please understand that I understand that there are more blues musicans out there besides Buddy Guy. Just like I do understand that there are other jazz musicians out there besides Miles Davis. I just get into these moods. Right now, I am in the Buddy Guy mode when it comes to my blues music. Since my friend gave me the album “Sweet Tea” I have been listening to him on a nearly daily basis.

So, I decided to look online, and at YouTube, and see if I could find another performance or tune or something. I was looking just for my own amusement, not entirely sure it would be something I would want to share here. Needless to say YouTube is loaded with performances of Buddy.

Then I came across this one and, well, I just had to share:

Look at that kid play! Holy crap! I had dreams of playing the guitar when I was younger. I even took lessons for about six months. It took about six months for me to determine that I was cursed with stubby, uncoordinated fingers that would never be able to hold down the string and play chords. I also realized I had no ear for music and playing music. As such, Jimi Hedrix’s legacy was safe from me.

Had I even a fraction of this kid’s talent, well, I wouldn’t be writing here. I would be on tour somewhere and picking which groupies I would be sleeping with tonight.

I love the part when he and Buddy exchange licks, with Buddy playing and the kid playing them back. That’s some impressive stuff right there.

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