SKIN DEEP SONG BUDDY GUY SKIN
Touted as his first album of original material, Skin Deep does work as an effective showcase for Buddy's most original voice: his wild, gnarly guitar. That wildness has kept Buddy Guy unpredictable well into his senior citizenship, and it surfaces on Skin Deep, only perhaps not quite as often as it should. What made Guy so riveting was his coiled aggression: in stark contrast to the deferential Jack White, he came to cut the Stones down and he did so mercilessly, which made it the musical highlight of a show with plenty of great moments.
SKIN DEEP SONG BUDDY GUY SERIES
The album will be released on April 20th, 2018 (pre-order available now), with one new video from the series dropping every month!ġ00% of Playing For Change’s profits from this album will go to the Playing For Change Foundation, helping to support music education across the globe.It's hard to say that Buddy Guy's career was revived by his appearance in the Rolling Stones' Shine a Light, but his mesmerizing duet on Muddy Waters' "Champagne and Reefer" in that Martin Scorsese concert film was a bracing, welcome reminder of just how good Guy is, especially for listeners who may have let their attention wander in the years since Damn Right, I've Got the Blues. All music in this series was recorded live outside with a mobile studio and features over 200 musicians from 25 different countries. John, Jack Johnson, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and many more. "Skin Deep" is the first song from our Listen to the Music series - our newest body of work comprising 12 new Songs Around The World and featuring Buddy Guy, The Doobie Brothers, Warren Haynes, Dr. He also worked with gospel greats – including the Williams Brothers, The Jackson Southernaires, and Daryl Coley. Musical director, and guitarist ZZ Hill, Johnnie Taylor, Denise LaSalle, Little Milton, Bobby Bland, and Swamp queen Katie Webster. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Vasti was session guitarist for Malaco Records (Mississippi) and Alligator Records (Chicago). King’s Grammy award-winning Blues Summit in 1994. Rooted in the music of Mississippi, and Louisiana Vasti Jackson recorded on B.B. Vasti Jackson and the Roots Gospel Voices of Mississippi So I’d heard the sitar on a Stevie Wonder song, and when I found out they’d made one into a guitar, I figured, “Well, I’m gonna try one,” and so I did."īuddy Guy interview excerpted from You do everything you can to make the music something that people can get at. "I’m always trying to do something with the blues to keep it alive. If you take a close look (and listen) Buddy is not playing a typical electric guitar in the song: You know, you take a person down to the skeleton, down the bones - you can’t tell if they were black or white." I was on the bus talking with my producer and he said, 'Man, you write songs without even knowing it,' and he was noting down what we were talking about and when we got to the studio he came up with this song. And she said, 'Son, that’s only skin deep.' We didn’t have electricity, and she was combing her hair in the mirror - matter of fact, I speak to her onstage every night before I play this song - one afternoon when the sun was going down, and I peeped at her in the mirror and I said - I was just playing - 'Mama, you good-lookin’. "Well, what happened was, I was between nine and 11 years old. Buddy Guy talks about the inspiration behind "Skin Deep:"
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