180g Audiophile Vinyl Double LP!
First Time On Vinyl!
2001 Grammy Award Nominee:
• Best Contemporary Blues Album: Sweet Tea
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 Gotta Try You, 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.
Features
- 180g Audiophile Vinyl
- Double LP
- Gatefold sleeve
- First Time on Vinyl
- Insert
- Import
Selections
Side One:
- Done Got Old
- Baby Please Don't Leave Me
- Look What All You Got
Side Two:
- Stay All Night
- Tramp
- She's Got The Devil In Her
Side Three:
- I Gotta Try You Girl
Side Four:
- Who's Been Foolin' You
- It's A Jungle Out There