Buddy Guy discography

Buddy Guy discography
Photograph of Guy playing live at Liri Blues Festival 1989
Guy playing live at Liri Blues Festival 1989
Studio albums33
EPs4
Live albums15
Compilation albums23
Tribute albums1
Singles34
Music videos2
Concert films7
Solo and collaboration works are counted.

This is the discography of American blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy.[1]

Solo

Singles & EPs

Title Year Label Notes Album
"Sit and Cry (the Blues)" / "Try to Quit You Baby" 1958 Artistic
"You Sure Can't Do" / "This Is The End" 1959 Artistic Ike Turner played guitar on both tracks and composed "This Is The End" [2][3]
"I Got My Eyes on You" / "First Time I Met the Blues" 1960 Chess
"Slop Around" / "Broken Hearted Blues" 1960 Chess
"Let Me Love You Baby" / "Ten Years Ago" 1961 Chess
"Stone Crazy" / "Skippin!" 1962 Chess
"When My Left Eye Jumps" / "The Treasure Untold" 1962 Chess
"Hard But It's Fair" / "No Lie" 1963 Chess
"I Dig Your Wig" / "Scraping" 1964 Chess
"My Time After While" / "I Dig Your Wig" 1964 Chess
Crazy Music 1965 Chess UK 7" EP track listing:
"Crazy Music" / "Leave My Baby Alone" / "Every Girl I See" / "Too Many Ways"
"Leave My Girl Alone" / "Crazy Love" 1965 Chess
"My Mother" / "Mother-In-Law Blues" 1966 Chess
"I Suffer with the Blues" / "I'm Gonna Keep It To Myself" 1967 Chess
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" / "Sweet Little Angel" 1968 Vanguard A Man and the Blues
"Buddy's Groove" / "She Suits Me to a Tee" 1969 Chess
"A Man of Many Words" / "Honey Dripper" 1972 Atlantic
"Damn Right, I've Got the Blues" / "Doin' What I Like Best" 1991 Silvertone Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
"Where Is The Next One Coming From?" / "Let Me Love You Baby" 1991 Silvertone
"This Is the End" / "I Hope You Come Back Home" 1992 Jewel
"I Go Crazy" / "Feels Like Rain" 1993 Silvertone Feels Like Rain
"Please Don't Drive Me Away" / "A Man of Many Words" 1995 Silvertone Slippin' In
"Talk to Me Baby" 1996 Silvertone Live: The Real Deal
"Meet Me in Chicago" 2013 RCA Rhythm & Blues
"Born to Play Guitar" 2015 RCA Born to Play Guitar
"Thick Like Mississippi Mud" 2015 RCA
"Sick with Love" / "She Got it Together" 2017 RCA
"You Sure Can't Do" / "Sit and Cry" Jewel
"The Way You Been Treating Me" / "This Is the End" Jewel

Albums

Studio albums

Title Year Label Recording year Notes
Left My Blues in San Francisco 1967 Chess 1965-67
A Man and the Blues 1968 Vanguard 1968 Also released as The Blues To-Day.
Hold That Plane! 1972 Vanguard 1969
The Blues Giant 1979 Isabel 1979 The album was re-released in 1981 by Alligator Records as Stone Crazy! (AL-4723).
Breaking Out 1980 JSP 1980
DJ Play My Blues 1982 JSP 1981
Damn Right, I've Got the Blues 1991 Silvertone 1991 Won the 1992 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
Feels Like Rain 1993 Silvertone Won the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
Slippin' In 1994 Silvertone Won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
Heavy Love 1998 Silvertone
Sweet Tea 2001 Silvertone Nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
Blues Singer 2003 Silvertone Won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.
Bring 'Em In 2005 Silvertone
Skin Deep 2008 Silvertone
Living Proof 2010 Silvertone Won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
Rhythm & Blues 2013 Silvertone/RCA
Born to Play Guitar 2015 Silvertone/RCA Won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Blues Album.
The Blues Is Alive and Well 2018 Silvertone/RCA
The Blues Don't Lie 2022 Silvertone/RCA

Live albums

Title Year Label Recording year Notes
This Is Buddy Guy! 1968 Vanguard 1968 Recorded at New Orleans House: Berkeley, California.
The Dollar Done Fell 1980 JSP 1979 Re-released in 1988 as Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1979.
Live: The Real Deal 1996 Silvertone 1996 Recorded live at Buddy Guy's Legends, Chicago, IL, and the Irving Plaza, New York, NY. The album was re-released in 2006 by Sony Music.
Jammin’ Blues Electric & Acoustic 2003 BMG 1993/1996 Compilation of tracks from Live: The Real Deal and Last Time Around: Live at Legends.
Live at Legends 2012 Silvertone 2010 Tracks 1 to 8 recorded live at Buddy Guy's Legends, Chicago, IL, January 29 & 30, 2010. Tracks 9 to 11 recorded at Blackbird Studios, Nashville TN, March 9, 2010.
I'll Play the Blues for You 2016 Klondike 1992 Remastered WHCN-FM broadcast of Buddy Guy live from The Sting in Connecticut on 9 January 1992.

Compilations

Title Year Label Recording year Notes
First Time I Met the Blues 1969 Python
In the Beginning 1969 Red Lightnin 1958-64
I Was Walking Through the Woods 1970 Chess 1960-64
Hot & Cool 1977 Vanguard 1968-72
Got to Use Your Head 1978 Blues Ball 1960-66
Chess Masters 1981 Chess Re-released 1984 as Buddy Guy.
Ten Blue Fingers 1985 JSP 1980-81 Compilation of tracks from Breaking Out and DJ Play My Blues.
My Time After Awhile 1992 Vanguard 1965-72
The Very Best of Buddy Guy 1992 Rhino
The Complete Chess Studio Recordings 1992 Chess 1960-67
Southern Blues 1957–63 1994 Paula 1957-63
Buddy's Blues 1997 Chess 1960-67 released in the "Chess Masters" series.
Blues Master 1997 Vanguard
Buddy's Blues 1978–1982: The Best of the JSP Recordings 1998 JSP 1978-82
As Good As It Gets 1998 Vanguard 1965-72
Buddy's Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy 1999 Silvertone
The Complete Vanguard Recordings 2000 Vanguard 1968-72
20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Buddy Guy 2001 Chess The album was re-released by Geffen Records in 2011 as Icon.
Best of the Silvertone Years 1991–2005 2005 Silvertone 1991-2005
Can't Quit the Blues [3-CD + 1-DVD box set] 2006 Silvertone
Vanguard Visionaries 2007 Vanguard
Playlist: The Very Best of Buddy Guy 2009 Silvertone 1991-2008
The Definitive Buddy Guy 2009 Shout! Factory His first single-disc career-spanning CD.
Blues Greats: Buddy Guy 2011 Geffen

Concert films

Title Year Label Recording year
Live: The Real Deal 1996 Silvertone 1996
Teachin' the Blues 2005 Hot Licks
At Glastonbury 2008 BBC 2008
Listen to This: A Musical Documentary 2013 IMV/Blueline 1991

Collaborations

Singles & EPs

Title
and artist(s) 		Year Label Notes Album
With the Blues
by Eddie Boyd & Buddy Guy 		1965 Chess UK 7" EP track Listing:
"First Time I Met the Blues" / "Ten Years Ago" / "Third Degree" / "Twenty-Four Hours"
(First two songs are Buddy Guy recordings; The other two songs are Eddie Boyd recordings)
Blues with a Beat
by Junior Wells 		1965 Delmark EP track Listing:
"Hoodoo Man Blues" / "Early in the Morning" / "Snatch It Back and Hold It" / "Ships on the Ocean"
"A Man of Many Words" / "Honey Dripper"
by Buddy Guy with Dr. John & Eric Clapton / by Buddy Guy with The J. Geils Band 		1972 ATCO
"Mustang Sally"
by Buddy Guy with Jeff Beck 		1991 Silvertone Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
"Some Kind of Wonderful" / "Too Broke to Spend the Night"
by Buddy Guy feat. Paul Rodgers 		1993 Silvertone Feels Like Rain
Midnight Train
by Buddy Guy feat. Jonny Lang 		1998 Silvertone EP Track listing:
"Midnight Train" / "Had a Bad Night" / "Nobody Understands Me But My Guitar" / "Midnight Train" 		Heavy Love
"Stay Around a Little Longer"
by Buddy Guy feat. B.B. King 		2010 Sony Living Proof
"Good Things" / "You Can't Love Me"
by Buddy Guy & Jesse Fortune / by T.V. Slim 		Paula
"Too Many Cooks" / "Heavy Heart Beat"
by Buddy Guy / by Jesse Fortune 		1963 Jewel

Albums

Studio albums

Title
and artist(s) 		Year Label Recording year Notes
Hoodoo Man Blues
by Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band 		1965 Delmark 1965
Chicago / The Blues / Today!, Vol. 1
by Various Artists 		1966 Vanguard 1966
It’s My Life, Baby!
by Junior Wells 		1966 Vanguard 1966 Parts of the album were recorded live at Pepper's Lounge
Coming at You
by Junior Wells 		1968 Vanguard 1968
Buddy and the Juniors
by Buddy Guy, Junior Mance & Junior Wells 		1970 Blue Thumb 1969
Southside Blues Jam
by Junior Wells 		1970 Delmark 1969-70
Southside Reunion
by Memphis Slim 		1971 Blue Star 1970
Play the Blues
by Buddy Guy & Junior Wells 		1972 Atlantic 1970-72
Pleading the Blues
by Junior Wells 		1979 Isabel 1979
Buddy & Phil
by Buddy Guy & Phil Guy 		1981 JSP 1979-80 Parts of the album were recorded live at the Checkerboard Lounge
Going Back
by Buddy Guy & Junior Wells 		1981 Isabel 1981 The album was re-released, with five additional tracks, in 1991 by Alligator Records as Alone & Acoustic, and remastered in 2006 by Pure Pleasure Records as Going Back to Acoustic.
The Red Hot Blues of Phil Guy
by Phil Guy 		1982 JSP 1982
Bad Luck Boy
by Phil Guy 		1983 JSP 1982
Better Off with the Blues
by Junior Wells 		1993 Telarc 1993
All Star Chicago Blues Session
by Phil Guy 		1994 JSP 1982
He's My Blues Brother
by Phil Guy 		2006 Black-Eyed

Live albums

Title
and artist(s) 		Year Label Recording year Notes
Folk Festival of the Blues
by Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson II 		1963 Argo
Live Recording at Yuhbin-Chokin Hall
by Junior Wells & Buddy Guy 		1975 Bourbon 1975
Live in Montreux
by Buddy Guy & Junior Wells 		1978 Black & Blue 1978 Re-released in 1999 as Everything Gonna Be Alright
Drinkin’ TNT ’n’ Smokin’ Dynamite
by Buddy Guy & Junior Wells 		1982 Blind Pig 1974
The Original Blues Brothers
by Buddy Guy & Junior Wells 		1982 Intermedia 1964 Re-released in 1999 as The Real Blues.
Last Time Around – Live at Legends
by Buddy Guy & Junior Wells 		1998 Silvertone 1993
Every Day I Have the Blues
by Buddy Guy & Junior Wells 		2000 Purple Pyramid 1964 The album was re-released in 2003 as Live at the Mystery Club and as Chicago Blues Festival 1964 and in 2005 as A Night of the Blues.
Double Dynamite
by Buddy Guy & Junior Wells 		2001 Aim
Live in Chicago 88
by Buddy Guy & Otis Rush 		2016 Klondike 1988

Concert films

Title
and artist(s) 		Year Label Recording year
Messin' With the Blues
by Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells 		1991 Rhino
Carlos Santana Presents Blues at Montreux 2004
by Carlos Santana, Buddy Guy, Clarence Brown & Bobby Parker 		2004 Eagle Vision 2004
Live at Nightstage
by Junior Wells 		2007 Image Entertainment 1986-89

Music videos

Title
and artist(s) 		Year
"Mustang Sally"
by Buddy Guy with Jeff Beck 		1991
"Some Kind of Wonderful"
by Buddy Guy feat. Paul Rodgers 		1993

Appearances

Singles & EPs

Title
and artist(s) 		Year Label
"Tell Me What I've Done" / "Ooh Baby"
by Howlin' Wolf 		1965 Chess
"Stop Breakin' Down" / "Mystery Train"
by Junior Wells 		1968 Vanguard
"I Want An Easy Woman" / "I Am Gonna Unmask the Batman"
by Lacy Gibson 		1969 Repeto
"Mail Order Mystics" / "I Could Cry" / "Wake Up Call"
by John Mayall 		1993 Silvertone

Albums

Studio albums

Title
and artist(s) 		Year Label Recording year Notes
Folk Singer
by Muddy Waters 		1964 Chess
The Soul of Blues Harmonica
by Shakey Horton 		1964 Argo
Five Long Years
by Eddie Boyd 		1965 Fontana
The Real Folk Blues
by Howlin' Wolf 		1965 Chess
The Real Folk Blues
by Sonny Boy Williamson 		1966 Chess 1964
Blues Southside Chicago
by Various Artists 		1966 Decca 1966 Recorded in Chicago by Willie Dixon.
In Europe
by Big Mama Thornton 		1966 Arhoolie 1965
Super Blues
by Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Little Walter 		1967 Checker 1967
More Real Folk Blues
by Sonny Boy Williamson II 		1967 Chess
The Super Super Blues Band
by Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley 		1968 Checker 1967
Koko Taylor
by Koko Taylor 		1969 Chess
The New Chicago Blues
by Clarence Wheeler 		1973 Atlantic 1972
Freedom
by Santana 		1987 Columbia
Coast to Coast
by Paul Shaffer 		1989 Capitol
Portrait of the Blues
by Lou Rawls 		1992 Capitol
Wake Up Call
by John Mayall 		1993 Silvertone
Force of Nature
by Koko Taylor 		1993 Alligator
Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters
by Paul Rodgers 		1993 Victory
Blues Summit
by B.B. King 		1993 MCA 1993
I Am the Blues
by Big Daddy Kinsey 		1993 Verve 1992-93
Johnnie Be Back
by Johnnie Johnson 		1995 MusicMasters
You Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Dead & Gone)
by Muddy Waters Tribute Band 		1996 Telarc
Great Guitars
by Joe Louis Walker 		1997 Polygram
Dark of the Night
by Scott Holt 		1999 Lightyear
The Big $core
by Howard & the White Boys 		1999 Evidence
Jim Peterik and World Stage
by Jim Peterik and World Stage 		2000 World Stage
Hot Foot Powder
by Peter Green 		2000 Artisan
Chapter 1: Love, Pain & Forgiveness
by Syleena Johnson 		2001 Jive
Me & the Devil
by Peter Green 		2001 Artisan
Jack O The Green: Small World Big Band Friends 3
by Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra 		2003 Rhino
Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played
by Les Paul & Various Artists 		2005 Capitol
Last Man Standing
by Jerry Jee Lewis 		2006 Artists First
Block Music
by Shawnna 		2006 Disturbing tha Peace/Def Jam
My Lady Don't Love My Lady
by Bryan Lee 		2009 Justin Time
2120 South Michigan Ave.
by George Thorogood and the Destroyers 		2011 Capitol 2011
Cyclone
by Quinn Sullivan 		2011 GBG
33 1/3
by Shemekia Copeland 		2012 Telarc

Live albums

Title
and artist(s) 		Year Label Recording year Notes
Berlin Festival – Guitar Workshop
by Various Artists 		1968 MPS 1967
Blues Jam at Chess
by Fleetwood Mac & Various Artists 		1969 Blue Horizon 1969 Also known as Fleetwood Mac in Chicago or Blues Jam in Chicago.
Doldinger Jubilee '75
by Passport 		1975 Atlantic 1975
24 Nights
by Eric Clapton 		1991 Reprise 1990-91
Antone's 20th Anniversary
by Various Artists 		1996 Discovery 1995
Rock America: Smash Hits Live
by Jim Peterik and World Stage 		2003 Frontiers
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues - Lightning in a Bottle
by Various Artists 		2004 Columbia 2003
Last Man Standing Live
by Jerry Jee Lewis and Various Artists 		2007 Artists First 2006
Crossroads Revisited Selections from the Crossroads Guitar Festivals
by Eric Clapton & Various Artists 		2016 Rhino/Reprise/Duck 2004-13

Compilations

Title
and artist(s) 		Year Label Recording year
Atlantic Blues: Chicago
by Various Artists 		1986 Atlantic
I Ain't Got No Money - 1950s South Louisiana Blues
by Various Artists 		1989 Flyright
Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
by Various Artists 		1993 Reprise
A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan
by Various Artists 		1996 Epic
Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino
by Various Artists 		2007 Vanguard 2007
Shine a Light
by The Rolling Stones 		2008 Polydor 2008
Chicago Plays the Stones
by Various Artists 		2017 Raisin' Music

Soundtracks

Title
and artist(s) 		Year Label Recording year
Rush
by Eric Clapton 		1992 Duck/Reprise 1991
Big Bad Love
by Various Artists 		2001 Nonesuch

Concert films

Title
and artist(s) 		Year Label Recording year
Supershow
by Various Artists 		1986 Virgin Vision 1969
Crossroads Guitar Festival: 2004
by Eric Clapton and Various Artists 		2004 Rhino 2004
Lightning in a Bottle
by B.B. King (directed by Antoine Fuqua) 		2004 Sony 2003
Crossroads Guitar Festival: 2007
by Eric Clapton and Various Artists 		2007 Rhino 2007
Last Man Standing Live
by Jerry Jee Lewis and Various Artists 		2007 Artists First 2006
Shine a Light
by The Rolling Stones (directed by Martin Scorsese) 		2008 Paramount 2008
Plays Blues at Montreux 2004
by Carlos Santana 		2008 Eagle Vision 2004
In Concert
by John Mayer 		2009 All Stars
Crossroads Guitar Festival: 2010
by Eric Clapton and Various Artists 		2010 Rhino 2010
Crossroads Guitar Festival: 2013
by Eric Clapton and Various Artists 		2013 Rhino 2013

Tribute albums

Title
and artist(s) 		Year Label
From Lettsworth to Legend: A Tribute to Buddy Guy
by Scott Holt 		2007 Audio Fidelity

References

  1. ^ "Discography on Allmusic". Allmusic.
  2. ^ Hal Leonard Corp (2014). 25 Top Blues Songs - Tab. Tone. Technique.: Tab+. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9781495001017.
  3. ^ "Buddy Guy And His Band - You Sure Can't Do/This Is The End". 45cat.