Sweet Tea (album)

Sweet Tea
Studio album by Buddy Guy
Released	May 15, 2001
Studio	Sweet Tea, Oxford, Mississippi
Genre	Blues
Length	54:20
Label	Silvertone/Jive
Producer	Dennis Herring
Buddy Guy chronology
Slippin' In (1994) Sweet Tea (2001) Blues Singer (2003)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	A− [2]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings	+ "Crown" [3]
Rolling Stone	[4]

Sweet Tea is the 11th studio album by American blues artist Buddy Guy, released in 2001 on Silvertone/Jive label. It was nominated for 2001 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. It includes four songs by Junior Kimbrough, who had died in 1998.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Done Got Old"	Junior Kimbrough	3:23
2.	"Baby Please Don't Leave Me"	Junior Kimbrough	7:24
3.	"Look What All You Got"	James Ford	4:45
4.	"Stay All Night"	Junior Kimbrough	4:10
5.	"Tramp"	Lowell Fulson, Jimmy McCracklin	6:47
6.	"She Got the Devil in Her"	CeDell Davis	5:10
7.	"I Gotta Try You Girl"	Junior Kimbrough	12:09
8.	"Who's Been Foolin' You"	Robert Cage	4:55
9.	"It's a Jungle Out There"	Buddy Guy	5:37

Personnel

• Buddy Guy – vocals, guitar
• Davey Faragher – bass
• Tommy Lee Miles – Drums
• James "Jimbo" Mathus – Rhythm guitar

Additional musicians and production

• Sam Carr – drums
• Dennis Herring – producer, mixing
• Clay Jones – mixing
• Craig Krampf – percussion
• Doug Sax – mastering
• Chris Shepard – engineer, mixing on "I Gotta Try You Girl"
• Pete Thomas – drums
• Bobby Whitlock – piano

Charts

Chart (2001) Peak position French Albums (SNEP) [5] 79 US Billboard 200 [6] 162 US Blues Albums [7] 1

Citations

1. Erlewine.
2. Christgau.
3. Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings . Penguin. p. 236. ISBN   978-0-140-51384-4.
4. Kot.
5. "Lescharts.com – Buddy Guy – Sweet Tea". Hung Medien.
6. "Billboard 200". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved February 4, 2012.
7. "Blues Albums". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved February 4, 2012.

References

• Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Buddy Guy: Sweet Tea > Review". Stephen Thomas Erlewine . Retrieved February 3, 2012.
• Christgau, Robert. "Buddy Guy > Consumer Guide Reviews". Robert Christgau . Retrieved February 3, 2012.
• Kot, Greg. "Buddy Guy: "Sweet Tea"". Greg Kot. Archived from the original on April 19, 2009. Retrieved February 10, 2012.