It’s that level of trust that makes him confident to bring Guy songs like, “Blue No More,” a tale of a bluesman on Judgement Day. I would never put anything on a Buddy Guy record that doesn't completely connect to him. “I love him to death, he has been so kind to me over the years and believed in me.
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“It’s more of an emotional connection,” Hambridge says. Hambridge, who’s written over 500 songs for artists like Johnny Winter, Rascal Flatts, and George Thorogood, says writing for Buddy Guy is entirely unique. Writing songs from someone else’s perspective is no easy task, especially when tackling such difficult subjects. “He puts his blood and sweat in this stuff. “It's an important piece of music that's coming out,” Hambridge says. While Hambridge wrote most of the lyrics on the album, he did so through Guy’s perspective, drawing from his stories and life experiences in the process. He wasn’t a surprising choice for the gig, having created two Grammy-winning records with Guy since they first met. And that’s what producer Tom Hambridge, 57, made sure of this time around. Save the sentimentality, this record rips the way only a Buddy Guy record could. While Guy vehemently laments both the modern state the record industry and the lack of any blues’ mainstream notoriety on radio, he’s far from out-of-touch with the genre that defined rock’n’roll. I gotta take it to bed with me and wake up with it again.”īut don’t let the record’s lyrics or his openness mislead you. If you write a song for me tomorrow and I like it, I’d look at it twice and say, ‘Yeah man, I got it, I don’t need to read it no more.’ Now, s**t, you gotta give me three months. “The late Tyrone Davis, him and I was talking before he got ill and passed away,” Guy says. He chuckles, but speaks with the practicality of a realist. Guy discusses entering his later years with dignity and humor. was 89 years old when he passed away, and I think your brains go to forgetting.” King passed away man, the last two years of his life, people was complaining about him playing the same song four or five times a night and everybody was afraid to tell him, ‘You done sung that song already!’ You know? He was the type, you didn’t tell him what to do, not easily.
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But people look at you as you get like that and say, ‘I don’t care, I just want to see you play the guitar.’” “If I keep living and can’t produce enough to make somebody happy, then I’ll begin to feel that I’m not giving you your money’s worth. “You owe people the best that you got,” Guy says. In 2012, he told PBS that blues musicians “don’t retire, they drop.” He still, albeit cautiously, maintains the sentiment today. Guy hopes to preserve his grace on stage, too. “When I go into the studio, I just hope and pray that I can hit a note or sing something that somebody would like.” “I was brought up very religious,” Guy says. Other singers use playback during numbers where their dance routines would either leave them out of breath, or the movement would affect voice production.The Blues is Alive and Well opens on the song “A Few Good Years,” a negotiation with a higher power to be allowed a bit more time with his friends, family, and guitar. Some singers mime to playback because they aren't good enough to sing live. Now this is a problem even for the best of singers.
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In fact the singing was more than exemplary - it was amazing! Amazing considering the energetic and vigorous dance routines that now seem almost compulsory. In fact the singing was exemplary - remember that this is a live show and there is no chance for a retake. You could tell that from the occasional slip up.īut there were no slip ups in the 2005 show of May 22. Love it or loathe it, as I said, the one thing you could say about Eurovision was at least the singing is live.
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The main point of interest is not so much the songs, but watching countries with such different traditions and musical tastes trying to please each other.
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For the five billion people in the world who didn't make it to the party - the Eurovision Song Contest dates back a full 50 years and is a live annual event where member countries of the European Broadcasting Union each compete to produce the best song, as judged by panels of judges or phone votes from each country.