BUDDY GUY BREAKING OUT
Label JSP 
Released: 1988
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It was 1980. Buddy Guy was still out there in the career doldrums. Not starving, certainly, but not accorded his due either by the mainstream music business. This one was recorded at Chicago Sound Studios and is a true one-off - an album that confused everyone at the time but now makes perfect sense. It was a dry run for stuff he would do when he got the (next) big break and was making records for a big, rock orientated, audience again. But those later sets never had this intensity - this hunger, this danger - this sheer cry of frustrated pain. And some bonus tracks are here from brother Phil Guy. [/color]

Tracklist:
1."Have You Ever Been Lonesome" - 6:22
2."You Can Make It If You Try" - 4:39
3."Break Out All over You (Poison Ivy)" - 4:10
4."She Winked Her Eye" - 4:55
5."I Didn't Know My Mother Had a Son Like Me" - 5:00
6."Boogie Family Style" - 4:01
7."You Called Me in My Dream" - 4:06
8."Me and My Guitar" - 4:49
9."Ice Around My Heart" - 8:53
10."Texas Flood" - 5:43

Recorded at Sound Studio, Chicago, Illinois in 1980 & Soto Sound, Evanston, Illinois in 1981.

Personnel:
Buddy Guy (vocals, guitar); Doug Williams, William McDonald, Phil Guy (guitar); Maurice John Vaughn (saxophone); Jene Pickett, Eddie Lusk (keyboards); Nick Charles, J.W. Williams (bass); Merle Perkins, Ray Allison (drums).