Jazz and Blues Lounge

Buddy, Buddy, Buddy

by balaspa on January 5th, 2008

After posting that live bit from Oscar Peterson yesterday, it made me wonder if I could locate some live Buddy Guy.  Of course, I wasn’t really concerned that I wouldn’t be able to find anything.  It seems that if you want to find anything all you need to do is a quick search on YouTube and you can find a video for anything you want. 

So, I picked this one very bluesy tune and decided to put the link HERE.  It’s Buddy doing some acoustic work, but damn, look at that man play guitar!  I love some good old-fashioned blues, too, and you have to love this one.

I tried to find a complete performance of his classic “Feels Like Rain.”  Try as I might, I couldn’t seem to find one.  The closest I could find was THIS one.  The quality kind of sucks.  Still, it’s clear enough for your to hear that great guitar.

Then, just because it’s so much fun, here’s some of Buddy playing along with B.B. King.  Click right HERE to check this classic clip out.

Of course, at true guitar virtuoso can play just about anything.  HERE is a clip of Buddy playing “Voodoo Chile” as though he were channeling Jimi.  Then again, considering what an influence Buddy was on Jimi, maybe it’s the other way around.

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