As close as
Buddy Guy's ever likely to come to recapturing the long-lost Chess sound. Cut live at his popular Chicago nightspot,
Buddy Guy's Legends, with guitarist
G.E. Smith's horn-leavened Saturday Night Live Band and pianist
Johnnie Johnson in lush support,
Guy revisits his roots on sumptuous readings of "I've Got My Eyes on You," "Ain't That Lovin' You," "My Time After Awhile," and "First Time I Met the Blues." No outrageous rock-based solos or
Cream/
Hendrix/
Stevie Ray homages; this is the
Buddy Guy album that purists have salivated for the last quarter century or so. ~ Bill Dahl