{"id":8403,"date":"2015-09-17T05:45:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8403"},"modified":"2015-09-17T05:45:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T09:45:22","slug":"album-mini-review-buddy-guy-born-to-play-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/17\/album-mini-review-buddy-guy-born-to-play-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Buddy Guy &#8212; Born to Play Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/buddy_guy_born.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/><\/center>File Next to: (early) <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>, <strong>Stevie Ray Vaughan<\/strong>, <strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00ZGVMKCE&amp;asins=B00ZGVMKCE&amp;linkId=Q7T5UDOVMWUHA23K&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No one can argue with any amount of credibility that <strong>Buddy Guy<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t paid his dues. Now 79 years old, the prime exemplar of Chicago electric blues can make any sort of album he cares to make. And it&#8217;s worth pointing out that bluesmen have made concession to popular trends before (anyone remember <strong>Muddy Waters<\/strong>&#8216; unfairly maligned 1968 album, ]<em>Electric Mud<\/em>?). And the idea of an album full of collaborations with \u201ctoday&#8217;s stars\u201d isn&#8217;t a new idea, either; just ask the late <strong>Ray Charles<\/strong>, <strong>Carlos Santana<\/strong>, or any number of other high-profile artists. So there&#8217;s nothing exactly groundbreaking about <em>Born to Play Guitar<\/em>, featuring as it does guest spots from <strong>Billy Gibbons<\/strong> (<strong>ZZ Top<\/strong>), <strong>Kim Wilson<\/strong> (<strong>Fabulous Thunderbirds<\/strong>), <strong>Joss Stone<\/strong> and <strong>Van Morrison<\/strong>. There&#8217;s a guitar-slinging, autobiographical tone to many of the set&#8217;s songs, and they rock pretty hard while allowing room for Guy&#8217;s swaggering vocals and still-stinging lead guitar work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" name=\"graphics3\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" align=\"BOTTOM\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\"> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Next to: (early) Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix No one can argue with any amount of credibility that Buddy Guy hasn&#8217;t paid his dues. Now 79 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,49,65],"tags":[435],"class_list":["post-8403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues","category-new-release","category-review","tag-buddy-guy","cat-9-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}