Buddy Guy - Sweet Tea

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MOVLP139

Sweet Tea is the 11th studio album by American blues artist Buddy Guy. The album was released in 2001 and was nominated for 2001 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

  • 180 gram audiophile vinyl
  • Gatefold sleeve
  • First time on vinyl
  • Includes Insert
  • 2001 Grammy Nominated album 'Best Contemporary Blues Album'
$70.00

Very few artists have attempted, or succeeded, in improving the standard template for classic blues records set some 50 years ago in the golden age of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf.

On Sweet Tea, Buddy Guy looks to the same source for inspiration; seven of the nine songs here are written by Fat Possum's hill-country blues roster, including T-Model Ford and Junior Kimbrough. Working with producer Dennis Herring (Counting Crows, Jars of Clay) and a small collective of Mississippi-based musicians, Guy sings with a passion that can only come from the same source as the songs.

The noise generated in the studio through vintage amplifiers has a live and dangerous feel to it. The acoustic opener, "Done Got Old," does not prepare the listener for the colossal aural assault of "Baby, Please Don't Leave Me." Fading in on a percussion track, Guy's guitar hits its cat-strangling best and never looks back, while the voice sounds energized, vital, and wholly contemporary. Through the 12-minute "I Got to Try It, Girl" to the closing Guy composition "It's a Jungle Out There," Sweet Tea has all the hallmarks of a classic blues album, mixed with a twist of the new.

Grammy nominated Sweet Tea is now finally available on vinyl for the first time. This 2LP gatefold package includes an insert.

  • 180 gram audiophile vinyl
  • Gatefold sleeve
  • First time on vinyl
  • Includes Insert
  • 2001 Grammy Nominated album 'Best Contemporary Blues Album'

Side A
1. Done Got Old
2. Baby Please Don't Leave Me
3. Look What All You Got   


Side B
1. Stay All Night
2. Tramp
3. She's Got The Devil In Her


Side C
1. I Gotta Try You Girl    


Side D
1. Who's Been Foolin' You
2. It's A Jungle Out There

More Information
By Labels Music On Vinyl
By Genre Blues
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