Buddy Guy - Ain't Done With The Blues

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2025
Time:64:54 
Size:149,3 MB 
Label:RCA Records 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Hooker Thing - 1:08
 2. Been There Done That - 3:48
 3. Blues Chase The Blues Away - 4:49
 4. Where U At - 4:02
 5. Blues On Top - 4:57
 6. I Got Sumpin' For You - 2:32
 7. How Blues Is That - 4:23
 8. Dry Stick - 4:42
 9. It Keeps Me Young - 2:57
10. Love On A Budget - 3:49
11. Jesus Loves The Sinner - 4:14
12. Upside Down - 3:12
13. One From Lightnin' - 1:10
14. I Don't Forget - 3:31
15. Trick Bag - 4:29
16. Swamp Poker - 5:01
17. Send Me Some Loving - 2:45
18. Talk To Your Daughter - 3:14

While Buddy Guy may have said that he'd "seen enough of this place" in a surprise cameo at the end of Ryan Coogler's 2025 film, Sinners, it's clear from this release that his musical career is far from over.  As the last of the second generation of bluesmen still playing and making records, 89-year-old Guy is still inspired by the musical form he's been playing all his life and pays tribute here to many of his now-passed friends and contemporaries.Guy opens Ain't Done With the Blues with "Hooker Thing," an acoustic number set to John Lee Hooker's signature "Boogie Chillen." "That's one of the first things I ever learned how to play man," he shares with a laugh at the song's end.  Two other notable tributes include a lively rendition of New Orleanian Earl King's "Trick Bag," and "One from Lightnin'," where he convincingly reproduces the signature talking style of Texan Lightnin' Hopkins. He follows that with the muscular and electric, Chicago-style "Been There Done That," which like much of the rest of the album was co-written by Tom Hambridge and Gary Nicholson—two veterans who have composed near perfect settings for Guy's still potent gifts. Hambridge, a longtime collaborator who has produced five previous Guy albums stretching back to 2008, also plays drums which add a full and modern sound.  Additional contributors include Joe Bonamassa, The Blind Boys of Alabama, and Peter Frampton.Playing a variety of Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster guitars, the Guy adds inventive solos to every track. And his singing voice, always an underrated talent, is amazingly supple and strong throughout.  In "I Don't Forget" Guy shares his octogenerian insight as he recounts the racial injustices he's lived through, "At the swimming pool/ We weren't allowed/ Some folks afraid/ We'd turn ‘em Black somehow."  Sounding younger than his years, Guy remains committed to, as he puts it, "give you everything I got as long as I got it." © Robert Baird

Ain't Done With The Blues