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Nov 29, 2010Seventy-four years on, he has recorded what is surely the blues album of the year.
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Dec 22, 2010Whilst 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.
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UncutDec 20, 2010There 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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Oct 29, 2010Like Skin Deep before it, Living Proof is distinguished by these bold, clenched blasts of sonic fury, but here the production has just enough grit to make the entire enterprise feel feral, and that's a greater testament to Guy's enduring vitality than any one song could ever be.
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Oct 26, 2010Amid the album's stolid, sometimes plodding traditionalism, Guy's shrapnel-tossing tone brings some much-needed tension and surprise.
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Oct 26, 2010The guitar legend still plays with the energy of a teenager-albeit a highly talented one-just starting out. And when he gets his dander up on such tracks as "Too Soon" and "Let the Door Knob Hit Ya," Guy can still diss like a street gangsta
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Oct 29, 2010From the Stratocaster sizzle of "Key Don't Fit" to the piercing Telecaster sting of the title track, it's the best batch of blues Guy's cooked up in years.