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Skin Deep (Buddy Guy album)

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Released
  
22 July 2008

Label
  
Artist
  
Producer
  
Length
  
58:09

Skin Deep2008
  
Living Proof2010

Release date
  
22 July 2008

Recorded
  
Blackbird Studios, Nashville, TN

Genres
  
Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

Similar
  
Buddy Guy albums, Blues albums

Skin Deep is the fourteenth studio album by blues musician Buddy Guy, released in 2008. The album features a number of collaborations including: Eric Clapton, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, and Robert Randolph.

Contents

Background

Buddy Guy said he was inspired to write the song "Skin Deep" after reuniting with a white childhood friend whose parents had cut off their relationship as teens. He has also stated that the inspiration came from his mother who used to tell him that 'beauty is only skin deep.'

Reception

People magazine praised Guy's guitar work saying that there was "...no doubt that Buddy is still the man here." CD Universe did much the same by writing "...he wails and shreds here with as much passion as ever." and "...Guy still plays and sings like the urban blues monster he remains." Allmusic criticized the production for being too pristine, saying that the album "gleams too brightly" in some parts. The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album. The album debuted at number 68 on the Billboard 200, the highest position of any of Guy's previous albums. It also debuted at number 1 on the Blues Albums chart and remained at the top spot for three weeks and remained on the chart for 65 weeks.

Musicians

  • Buddy Guy - guitar, sitar, vocals
  • Guitars'57 Stratocaster on track 1Jerry Jones sitar on tracks 2 & 9Gibson ES-335 Custom on track 3'74 Telecaster on tracks 4 & 8BG Strat on tracks 5, 7, 10 & 11Gibson Custom 335 on track 6Eric Clapton Stratocaster on track 12
  • Marc Franklin - trumpet
  • David Grissom - guitar
  • Tom Hambridge - drums, handclaps, tambourine, percussion, vocals, backing vocals
  • Richie Hayward - drums
  • Rob McNelly - guitar
  • Quinn Sullivan - guitar
  • Willie Weeks - bass
  • Nathan Williams - accordion
  • Reese Wynans - keyboards
  • Lannie McMillan - tenor sax
  • Kirk Smothers - tenor sax
  • Bekka Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett & Wendy Moten - backing vocals
  • Guest musicians

  • Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
  • Robert Randolph - steel guitar, pedal steel
  • Susan Tedeschi - vocals
  • Derek Trucks - slide guitar, guitar
  • Songs

    1Best Damn Fool4:57
    2Too Many Tears4:25
    3Lyin' Like a Dog7:27

    References

    Skin Deep (Buddy Guy album) Wikipedia


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