Buddy Guy - Live at Legends

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2012
Time: 54:43 
Size: 125,7 MB 
Label: RCA
Styles: Blues/Chicago Blues
Art: Front+Back 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Intro (Live) - 0:38
 2. Best Damn Fool (Live) - 6:14
 3. Mannish Boy (Live) - 4:06
 4. I Just Want To Make Love To You/Chicken Heads (Live) - 9:22
 5. Skin Deep (Live) - 5:17
 6. Damn Right I Got The Blues (Live) - 6:25
 7. Boom Boom/Strange Brew (Live) - 3:00
 8. Voodoo Chile/Sunshine Of Your Love/Keep On Truckin'(Live) - 3:35
 9. Polka Dot Love - 5:35
10. Coming For You - 4:23
11. Country Boy - 6:04

Live at Legends is a 2012 album by Buddy Guy. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard Blues chart and #70 on the Billboard Tastemakers chart. The album is a live recording of Buddy Guy at Buddy Guy's Legends, recorded on January 29 & 30, 2010. The album was also nominated for Best New Recording by Living Blues. The album is some of his last recordings at the old Buddy Guy's Legends location and includes three previously unreleased tracks at the end of the album. Guitar World also named it one of the Top 25 Live, Reissued and Archival Albums of 2012.Live at Legends captures the raging bluesman during a blistering set at his club in early 2010, playing pretty much exactly what you'd expect: "Damn Right I Got the Blues," "Best Damn Fool," and medleys of "I Just Want to Make Love to You/Chicken Heads," "Boom Boom/Strange Brew," and "Voodoo Chile/Sunshine of Your Love." That said, this isn't a complaint. While it's true that Guy and his crack band have his show down cold -- this same basic set has been around for at least a decade with some additions and substitutions made while on tour playing larger venues -- they throw down each and every time. Given that this is his club, the senses of immediacy and a certain closeness are present here whereas they're missing on other live recordings. While Legends isn't exactly an intimate venue, it's a lot smaller than many of the places Guy plays every year. The sound is great, it keeps the raw edges and Guy tears the guitar to pieces throughout. What's interesting is that the live cuts make up only about 34 minutes of this recording and comprise only eight cuts. The other three are all new studio recordings cut in Nashville a couple of months after this gig, with help from some stellar studio aces including famed guitarist David Grissom (Joe Ely/John Mellencamp), Reese Wynans on B-3, his own pianist Marty Sammon, and bassists Michael Rhodes or Tommy Macdonald with drummer Tom Hambridge. "Polka Dot Love" is a slow Guy blues played in overdrive, with excellent interplay between him and Grissom. "Coming for You" (penned by Delbert McClinton) adds the Memphis Horns to the mix, in what amounts to a freewheeling, blues, rock, and funk jam. The closer is a soulful reading of Muddy Waters' "Country Boy," in which Guy looks deeply into the original version for inspiration. Why this set is assembled like this is a puzzler, but Guy's motivations have puzzled fans and critics since the very beginning. For the faithful, this amounts to a necessary "new" Buddy Guy recording.

Live at Legends