Living Proof - Buddy Guy
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  • Summary: The blues guitarist's latest solo album features Carlos Santana and B.B. King as guests.
  • Record Label: Jive
  • Genre(s): Rap, Blues, Pop/Rock, Modern Electric Blues, Regional Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Chicago Blues, Modern Electric Chicago Blues
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
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  1. BBC Music
    Nov 29, 2010
    100
    Seventy-four years on, he has recorded what is surely the blues album of the year.
  2. Uncut
    Dec 20, 2010
    80
    There are lots of martial bust-ups and squalls of fretboard fury that show that Buddy may be old but he's still wild. [Jan 2011, p.88]
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  3. musicOMH.com
    Dec 22, 2010
    80
    Whilst Living Proof is very much the blues, Buddy Guy's solos give this a rawness that swells with discord, and the result feels more akin to the avant-garde guitar days of Sonic Youth and Shellac.
  4. Q Magazine
    Jan 6, 2011
    60
    Even if the songs aren't much more than workmanlike, they're good enough to showcase the man's still mighty roar and shattering guitar playing. [Jan 2011, p.142]
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  1. germangirl
    8
    wow, what a disc... this old guy, creates a great bluesy album. The Song "Where the Blues begin" feature Santana and the song "Stay around a little longer" with the King of Blues BB King are the i-point for this tasty album. thanks and ...everybody's got to go... I hope you don't… Expand

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