I Left My Blues in San Francisco

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Released 1967 Artist Buddy Guy Producer Gene Barge Genre Blues		Length 32:03 Release date 1967 Label Chess Records

Recorded 23 April 1965 - 1967, Chicago, IL I Left My Blues in San Francisco (1967) A Man and the Blues (1968) Similar Buddy Guy albums, Blues albums

I Left My Blues in San Francisco is the debut album by American blues artist Buddy Guy. Future Rotary Connection producer and keyboardist Charles Stepney provided orchestration and drums on some tracks.

Personnel

Buddy Guy - vocals, guitar

Additional musicians and production

Gene Barge - producer, orchestration, tenor sax on tracks 1, 2, 7, 9, 10 and 11

Lefty Bates - guitar on track 4

Milton Bland - tenor sax on track 8

Reggie Boyd - bass on tracks 2, 9, and 11

Malcolm Chisholm - editor

Jarrett Gibson - tenor sax on track 4

Jerry Griffith - cover photo and album design

Lafayette Leake - organ on track 4

Abe Locke - tenor sax on track 4

Ron Malo - supervising engineer

Jack Meyers - bass on track 4

Matt Murphy - guitar on tracks 2, 8, 9 and 11

Dave Purple - editor

A.C. Reed - tenor sax on track 8

Leroy Stewart - bass on track 8

Charles Stepney - orchestration, drums on tracks 1, 7, and 10

Phil Thomas - drums on tracks 2, 4, 9, and 11

Sonny Turner - trumpet on track 4

Bill Utterback - illustration

Phil Upchurch - bass on tracks 1, 7, and 10

Murray Watson - trumpet on track 4

Unknown - baritone sax on tracks 1, 7 and 10; bass on tracks 3, 5 and 6; drums on tracks 3, 5, 6 and 8; guitar on tracks 1, 5, 7 and 10; organ on tracks 3 and 8; piano on tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11; and tenor sax on tracks 1, 5, 6, 7 and 10

Songs

1Keep It to Myself2:36
2Crazy Love2:25
3I Suffer With the Blues2:48

References

I Left My Blues in San Francisco Wikipedia

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