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Can't Quit the Blues | 
 enlarge | Artist: Buddy Guy
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $49.98
Buy New: $26.82
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 8293
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 5.7 x 0.8
MPN: 81967
UPC: 828768196724
EAN: 0828768196724
ASIN: B000IU3YMS
Release Date: October 31, 2006
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | The Way You Been Treating Me - Buddy Guy, Guy, Buddy | | • | Sit and Cry (The Blues) - Buddy Guy, Dixon, Willie | | • | This Is the End - Buddy Guy, Turner, Ike | | • | First Time I Met the Blues - Buddy Guy, Montgomery, Eurreal | | • | Ten Years Ago - Buddy Guy, Guy, Buddy | | • | Let Me Love You Baby - Buddy Guy, Dixon, Willie | | • | Stone Crazy - Buddy Guy, Guy, Buddy | | • | When My Left Eye Jumps - Buddy Guy, Dixon, Willie | | • | Hoodoo Man Blues - Buddy Guy, Williams, John Lee | | • | In the Wee Hours - Buddy Guy, Blakemore, Amos | | • | I Can't Quit the Blues - Buddy Guy, Guy, Buddy | | • | One Room Country Shack - Buddy Guy, Walton, Mercy Dee | | • | T-Bone Shuffle - Buddy Guy, Walker, T-Bone | | • | When You See the Tears from My Eyes - Buddy Guy, Guy, Buddy | | • | I Smell a Rat - Buddy Guy, Guy, Buddy | | • | She Suits Me to a T - Buddy Guy, Guy, Buddy | | • | D. J. Play My Blues - Buddy Guy, Guy, Buddy |
Disc 2
| • | Damn Right, I've Got the Blues - Buddy Guy, Guy, Buddy | | • | Mustang Sally - Buddy Guy, Rice, Mack | | • | Five Long Years - Buddy Guy, Boyd, Eddie | | • | Mary Ann - Buddy Guy, Charles, Ray | | • | She's Nineteen Years Old - Buddy Guy, Morgenfield, McKinl | | • | Miss Ida B - Buddy Guy, Sykes, Roosevelt | | • | Feels Like Rain - Buddy Guy, Hiatt, John | | • | 7-11 - Buddy Guy, Robinson, Fenton | | • | I Smell Trouble - Buddy Guy, Robey, Don | | • | Someone Else Is Steppin' In (Slippin' out, Slippin' In) - Buddy Guy, LaSalle, Denise | | • | My Time After Awhile - Buddy Guy, Geddins, Robert | | • | Your Mind Is on Vacation - Buddy Guy, Allison, Mose | | • | Midnight Train - Buddy Guy, Tiven, Jon | | • | Totally out of Control - Buddy Guy, Guy, Buddy |
Disc 3
| • | Nobody Understands Me But My Guitar - Buddy Guy, Holder, Jack | | • | Baby Please Don't Leave Me - Buddy Guy, Kimbrough, Junior | | • | Done Got Old - Buddy Guy, Kimbrough, Junior | | • | Honey Bee - Buddy Guy, Morgenfield, McKinl | | • | Tramp - Buddy Guy, Fulsom, Lowell | | • | Crawlin' Kingsnake - Buddy Guy, Hooker, John Lee | | • | Moanin' and Groanin' - Buddy Guy, Shines, Johnny | | • | Bad Life Blues - Buddy Guy, Hogg, Andrew | | • | I Can't Be Satisfied - Buddy Guy, Morgenfield, McKinl | | • | First Time I Met the Blues - Buddy Guy, Montgomery, Eurreal | | • | I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled and Crazy - Buddy Guy, Carter, Darryl | | • | Somebody's Sleeping in My Bed - Buddy Guy, Crutcher, Bettye Je | | • | I Miss You - Buddy Guy, Hester, Anthony | | • | Cut You Loose - Buddy Guy, London, Mel | | • | The Price You Gotta Pay - Buddy Guy, Keb' Mo |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Robert Cray says that Buddy Guy's guitar solos sound like laughter from space, but they can also peal like the cries of lost souls attempting to cross the River Styx. If these 47 songs on three CDs plus a DVD boasting a new 75-minute documentary and six performances from the Montreux Jazz Festival prove anything, it's that Guy is one of the most dynamic, diverse, expressionistic, and emotional guitarists--in any genre. The set neatly examines the 70-year-old Chicago blues legend's half-century career, starting with a ragged but soulful "The Way You Been Treating Me" cut in 1957 at a radio station in Guy's native Louisiana that finds him developing his searing, exploratory style. A year later, he's in Chicago working with tunesmith Willie Dixon, and the rest is history (chronicled in Anthony DeCurtis's excellent lines notes) that leads from the glory days of Chess Records to Guy's early breakout recordings for Vanguard to his modern-day mastery. The most recent recordings often find him working with acolytes: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Keb' Mo', Jonny Lang, Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, and John Mayer (who duets with Guy on the unreleased "I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled & Crazy"). B.B. King, who along with Guitar Slim was Guy's most important early influence, also joins Clapton and Guy on a stirring acoustic version of John Lee Hooker's "Crawlin' Kingsnake."This set makes the argument for Guy's ever-continuing growth as a musician--not only as a player whose frenzy, improvisational instincts, and tonal control keep stretching with age, but as a stylist who was unafraid to put aside his trademark electric approach in 2003 to make the acoustic Blues Singer (represented here by "Bad Life Blues" and the Hooker tune) and to embrace primal North Mississippi juke joint music with Sweet Tea, which lends this set a pair of Junior Kimbrough covers. Guy's sole artistic weakness is his songwriting. He's never been prolific, and even in the '60s his lyrics drew on well-established cliches. But, as these performances attest, his playing's never been less than daring--and his voice knows every nuance of heartache and joy. --Ted Drozdowski
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| Customer Reviews:
 Can't Refuse this blues set September 3, 2008
William J. Hautz (Cincinnati, Oh)
A great box set of of blues from the man who was before Jimi, before Stevie and before Eric. I should have been listening to Buddy long ago. Three solid discs of tunes and a snappy DVD with a great mix of interview and concert video. Includes a sizeable booklet of Buddy Guy history along with the CD tracks and players. I love this set and I have nothing negative to say about it. A must have!
Should be titled - "Some of Buddy's Best" March 27, 2008
Ray
Can this mans career be compressed down to three CDs?
In my opinion no. He is one of "THE GREATs". But this set gives you a very good sampling of some of his best work.
Every song included is good. Not a dud in the whole bunch.
The extra DVD included is a big plus for all us Buddy Guy fans. And the little booklet that's stapled into the box cover has some good extra material also.
All in all - a very good package that is well worth the money.
I does make me want to fill out my collection and get more of his music.
 Great music, but surprisingly the DVD isn't DVD quality February 26, 2008
hd94wideglide (Texas, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nice survey of Guy's career. Three CD's full of some of Guy's best. The DVD contains an extensive interview and good concert footage, but beware! The DVD is 4:3 standard definition or letterbox within 4:3 throughout. It shouldn't be a surprise that concert footage covering 30+ years would largely be standard def, but it is surprising that nothing on this DVD is formatted for widescreen.
 I love Buddy.. October 26, 2007
Wonderful books and music (Georgia)
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
I purchased this box set during one of Amazon's Gold Box specials. I was excited about the box set and just couldn't wait till it arrived. 2-1/2 weeks after placing the order, it arrived. I opened the package, opened the box set and could not get the CDs loose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I broke my thumbnail, I have pressed and mashed, still the CDs will not release! The only way I see to get the CDs out without breaking the center is to destroy the packaging. Help! the packaging may keep the CDs in place during mailing, but can't there be a choice between "Child proof" and regular? I am so disapointed that I can't get the CDs out.
Maybe this is a great set, but I can't hear it!
The DVD on this set is mind blowing..incredible! BUY IT!!! August 12, 2007
herb (somewhere hopefully)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have not even listened to the cd's yet. I went straight for the DVD and was just realy impressed. Great stuff. I paid full price of $45 too...and dont even regret it because I always wanted some good Buddy Guy footage. Now I have it. I am a guitar nut extreme and this is great stuff.
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