Track listing
- A1 Introduction 0:52
- A2 Ah'w Baby / Everything Gonna Be Alright 4:07
- A3 How Can One Woman Be So Mean 6:21
- A4 Checkin' On My Baby 4:55
- A5 When You See the Tears From My Eyes 6:18
- B1 Introduction 1:16
- B2 Ten Years Ago 8:46
- B3 Messing With the Kid 3:38
- B4 Hoodoo Man Blues 5:42
- B5 My Younger Days 2:55
- Total length: 44:50
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Drinkin' TNT 'n' Smokin' Dynamite [p] 33 rpm1974 Vinyl LP
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Drinkin' TNT 'n' Smokin' Dynamite 33 rpm, Live
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This has been one of my favorite Guy/Wells albums for a long time. I have no idea how somebody could be bored by the solos here. Check out Guy's solo on "Checkin' On My Baby"! Dynamite, indeed. This has my favorite versions of "Ah'w Baby / Everything Gonna Be Alright," "Checkin' On My Baby," and "Messing With the Kid". Throw in a slow version of "Hoodoo Man Blues," a stellar slow burner in "How Can One Woman Be So Mean," and you've got one hell of a live album.
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I hate to say this, but we get a better thrill out of playin’ over here than we do at home
Sure, this looks like an all-star game, with the two great Blues friends Buddy and Junior joined by Wyman, Perkins, Taylor and so on, all this in the usually very fiery or very loose environment that the safe seclusion of Montreux always seemed to offer. Time has taught me to be very suspicious of live all-star records, and this is no different. It is very very loose, so comfortable in fact that it goes mellow. I’m a rabid fan of basically every one involved in this album, but they just shuffle through their stuff as if it was a 10am warm-up session instead of the actual concert. The title seems to be a kind of over-compensation of this fact.
Buddy and Junior shared vocals and solos as they used to do, but the solos are weirdly inconspicuous – seriously, you might miss them if you don’t pay attention. Most of the songs rely mostly on a pleasantly boogie-ing rhythm section, with Buddy accompanying them with some jazzy riffs. Junior sings the more boogie-oriented numbers, and Buddy takes the slow heavy blues tracks. The latter are much more interesting, as this is where Buddy Guy really leans into the solos instead of just, well, „supplying“ them (as on the forgettable „Checking on My Baby“).
So, the record gets interesting for the first time on „When You See the Tears From My Eyes“, but the only true highlight is probably the extensive „Ten Years Ago“, where the interplay of Junior and Buddy becomes interesting, the former turning in his best solo of the record, while the rhythm section fades into oblivion. By the way: Pinetop Perkins is allegedly on the record, but the only way you can tell is because it says so on the album sleeve. They perform their well-known hits, „Messin’ with the Kid“, „Hoodoo Man“, it’s all in fine fashion: the performances are not ruined by bored professionalism (I never ever heard this happening to Buddy Guy), but their impact is softened by the living-room-atmosphere, replacing intimacy with jovial slackness.
Some people seem to dig the non-chalant and all-too-comfortable mood of this live outing, but compared to some of Buddy Guy’s and Junior Wells’ other output, this is okay, but pedestrian.
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Status: for Fans
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BP 71182 CD (1988)
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A1
Introduction
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A2
Ah'w Baby / Everything Gonna Be Alright
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A3
How Can One Woman Be So Mean
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A4
Checkin' On My Baby
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A5
When You See the Tears From My Eyes
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B1
Introduction
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B2
Ten Years Ago
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B3
Messing With the Kid
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B4
Hoodoo Man Blues
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B5
My Younger Days
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A1
Introduction
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A2
Ah'w Baby / Everything Gonna Be Alright
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A3
How Can One Woman Be So Mean
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A4
Checkin' On My Baby
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A5
When You See the Tears From My Eyes
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B1
Introduction
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B2
Ten Years Ago
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B3
Messing With the Kid
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B4
Hoodoo Man Blues
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B5
My Younger Days
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