{"id":2626,"date":"2011-07-26T23:24:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2011-07-26T23:24:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:24:31","slug":"buddy-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/buddy-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"BUDDY GUY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2627\" title=\"BUDDY-GUY-M-Review-June2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BUDDY-GUY-M-Review-June2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BUDDY-GUY-M-Review-June2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BUDDY-GUY-M-Review-June2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>B<\/strong><strong>UDDY GUY<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Buddy and the Juniors<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Verve\/Hip-O Select]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy don\u2019t we play some blues?\u201d Buddy Guy proposes by way of kicking off this 1970 curiosity, now issued domestically on CD for the first time. It\u2019s an unplugged session born of differences between Guy and his record label, which led to the label refusing to provide the budget for a full recording band. So guitarist Guy, his longtime partner Junior Wells on harp, and jazz pianist Junior Mance got together, and this relaxed, spontaneous set was the result. The trio combined material conceived on the spot (\u201cRiffin\u2019 [A Motif Is Just a Riff],\u201d \u201cTalkin\u2019 \u2019Bout Women Obviously\u201d) with a clutch of standards (\u201cHoochie Coochie Man,\u201d \u201cRock Me Mama,\u201d a riff on Little Walter\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s Too Late Brother\u201d billed as \u201cAin\u2019t No Need\u201d). As is typically the case with this sort of affair, there are moments when things seem ready to go off the rails, but those moments don\u2019t detract from its overall charm. \u2013Stuart Munro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUDDY GUY Buddy and the Juniors [Verve\/Hip-O Select] \u201cWhy don\u2019t we play some blues?\u201d Buddy Guy proposes by way of kicking off this 1970 curiosity, now issued domestically on CD for the first time. It\u2019s an unplugged session born of differences between Guy and his record label, which led to the label refusing to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2077,2076,2079,1636,1875,2078],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}