Sings Big Bill Broonzy/Folk Singer

Sings Big Bill Broonzy/Folk Singer

A sideman here, Buddy Guy helps make Folk Singer one of the greatest blues albums ever--especially when coupled on one CD with Sings Bill Broonzy, another classic Muddy Waters collection. Guy s role in Folk Singer is both crucial and brilliant. This back-to-basics all-acoustic session, Leonard Chess s attempt to make Waters part of the early- 60s country-blues boom, features Muddy on rhythm and slide guitar, singing with elemental power; Willie Dixon on upright bass; and then-youngster Guy playing lead lines that soar with the exquisite and enticingly erratic beauty of butterflies. This session was Guy s big break at Chess, provided at Waters s insistence and earned by an innovative performance that links down-home feel with urban intensity. --Ted Drozdowski SKU : ADIB000002O3H