Rhythm & Blues (Buddy Guy album)

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Rhythm & Blues
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 30, 2013 (2013-07-30)
Genre Blues, soul
Label RCA
Producer Tom Hambridge
Buddy Guy chronology
Living Proof
(2010)
Rhythm & Blues
(2013)
Born to Play Guitar
(2015)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Exclaim! 8/10 [2]
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Rhythm & Blues is the 16th studio album by American blues musician Buddy Guy. It was released in July 2013 under RCA Records. Rhythm & Blues marked Guy's largest first week sales in the Soundscan Era, and was his fourth album to reach No. 1 on the Top Blues Albums Chart (following 2010's Living Proof , 2008's Skin Deep , and 2001's Sweet Tea ). [4]

Contents

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 27 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Top Blues Albums chart. [4] selling 10,000 copies in its first week. The album has sold 55,000 copies in the United States as of July 2015. [5]

Musicians

Guitars
  • BG '89 Fender Custom Strat on (A1 to A3, A5, B1 to B3, C2 to C4, D1, D3)
  • '54 Fender Strat on (A4, C5, D5)
  • Gibson Custom 335 on (B4 to B6, C1, D4)
  • Gibson Les Paul (D2)
  • Charles Rose - trombone, horn arrangements
  • Steve Herrman - trumpet
  • Jim Horn - baritone saxophone
  • Harvey Thompson - tenor saxophone

Guest musicians

Personnel

Track listing

Disc One - Rhythm
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Best in Town"Buddy Guy, Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming4:55
2."Justifyin'"Buddy Guy, Tom Hambridge3:23
3."I Go by Feel"Tom Hambridge, Gary Nicholson 4:15
4."Messin' with the Kid" (featuring Kid Rock) Mel London 2:33
5."What's Up with That Woman"Tom Hambridge4:02
6."One Day Away" (featuring Keith Urban)Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming, Scott Holt3:44
7."Well I Done Got Over It"Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones2:55
8."What You Gonna Do About Me" (featuring Beth Hart)Tom Hambridge, Lee Roy Parnell, Gary Nicholson4:39
9."The Devil's Daughter"Buddy Guy, Tom Hambridge5:15
10."Whiskey Ghost"Tom Hambridge, Gary Nicholson4:36
11."Rhythm Inner Groove"Buddy Guy, Tom Hambridge0:34
Disc Two - Blues
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Meet Me in Chicago"Tom Hambridge, Robert Randolph 3:45
2."Too Damn Bad"Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming3:06
3."Evil Twin" (featuring Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, Brad Whitford)Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming5:23
4."I Could Die Happy"Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming4:13
5."Never Gonna Change"Tom Hambridge, David Gogo 3:20
6."All That Makes Me Happy Is the Blues"Tom Hambridge, Gary Nicholson4:36
7."My Mama Loved Me"Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming3:33
8."Blues Don't Care" (featuring Gary Clark, Jr.)Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming3:26
9."I Came Up Hard"Buddy Guy, Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming5:28
10."Poison Ivy" Mel London 2:50

Charts

Chart (2013)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [6] 106
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [7] 86
French Albums (SNEP) [8] 93
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [9] 41
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [10] 69
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [11] 46
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [12] 12
US Billboard 200 [13] 27
US Top Blues Albums (Billboard) [14] 1
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [15] 5

Notes

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