The Godfather of contemporary blues, who took modern Chicago blues and embellished it with the bite, fire, and flash of rock & roll,
Buddy Guy
had not yet broken through in America (although he was much appreciated in Europe) when he recorded three albums for
JSP Records
between 1979 and 1981, including this, the middle one, which found
Guy
working with a solid session band of guitarists
Doug Williams
,
William McDonald
, and
Phil Guy
, saxophonist
Maurice John Vaughn
, keyboardists
Gene Pickett
and
Eddie Lusk
, bassists
Nick Charles
J.W. Williams
, and drummers
Merle Perkins
Ray Allison
. It's vintage
, and shows the raw but applied talent and showmanship that would eventually bring him the large American audience he so justly deserved in the 1990s. [A 2008 re-release added three bonus tracks.] ~ Steve Leggett