Skin Deep: Buddy Guy’s Golden Rule

By Tom Crenshaw

We've been listening to a lot of Buddy Guy lately here at RockOm. Man, talk about one of the few really innovative guitarists who's still strutting his stuff on the road. Buddy's latest collection of songs (entitled Skin Deep ) is his 62nd album and his first that is self-produced, containing all original material. That's crazy - 62 albums!

"This is the first time I really had more control," Guy says. "Everything in here is new. Most of the other albums have been a few new songs and then back to the older stuff or the covers - which is fine, but you gotta be creative. I would talk to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck when they were all making records, and they would tell me that they would go in the studio with the freedom to play what they wanted. This time, I had that." (MORE...)