Sweet Tea

Sweet tea is the Sweetest CD!!

This is just pure, raw, organic blues. Buddy's guitar playing just burns your face off! My favorite out of all his work.

i was listening to pandora and "baby please don't leave me" came on and i couldnt believe it. everything about this cd is amazing, the vibe, tone, everything. ive been looking for a cd like this for a long time

half of these songs are junior kimbroughs lets give him some respect

The reviewer for iTunes is accurate in describing a certain "hollowness" to the mix here, but he's wrong to say that it's a mistake, a "self conscious" stylized weakness. This "hollowness" is the sound of minimal production, minimal interference, a more earnest attempt to capture room dynamics with just a hint of historical ambience. It's as though the songs are drifting across that great distance and time from where Buddy first learned to jam and stomp out the blues. Many so called genuine lo-fi recordings are in fact finely contrived simulations of the old beer hall, bar wood floor, back room, juke joint sound that few blues fans have ever experienced first hand. This album's sound is open and receding 'cause that's what you get if you don't force the effect. This natural accurate unfocused sound is disappointing only if you've been spoiled on over-produced synthetic recreations that are fashioned to satisfy the modern ears need for complex separations and excessive but disguised manipulation. The music here is allowed to breathe and relax in its own raw space, not forced to conform to my antiseptic one. Let the space define the sounds, not vice versa. It's a novel, new, revolutionary notion that's as genuine as the very first recorded sounds that were laid down in real places. Also, the songs here are pretty damn good, too.

I don't know what the itunes reviewer is looking for, but it's not pure, raw, gritty blues. In this era of over-produced, synthesized crap, this is a release you can really "sink your teeth into". This is my favorite Buddy Guy release and I have quite a few. It seems that everything he does on this release works well. Just the transition from Done Got Old into Baby Please Don't Leave Me will give you chills. The reason I give it 5 stars is that I couldn't give it 6.

This is one of the best Blues albums period! 50 years from now this will still be one the best ever!

THIS IS THE BIRTH OF A LEGEND. I have been lucky enough to make a living playing the BLUES, Bluesmen like BB, ALBERT ,FREDDIE, ROBERTJ ,SON HOUSE WILLIE DIXON and of course BUDDY GUY were my influences. I can only wish that after 40 years of playing I could come up with a cd 1/2 as good as this. I have just about every album BUDDY has ever put out and waited till NOW to buy this one... WHY YOU ASK???. In the latest copy of BLUES REVUE MAGAZINE it names 25 GREATEST BLUES ALBUMS that channged the past 10 yearsand this album was NUMBER ONE !!!!! There are some FANTASTIC BLUES ALBUMS in the list but when I got to NUMBER ONE it was SWEET TEA and for 8.99 you can find out why. IT IS RAW.....IT pulls at your heart,his guitar is raw and screams at you at one point and gently rests you at the next, it speaks the TRUTH and that is what the BLUES is supposed to do. I thought his latest album SKIN DEEP was his best, and of course CAN'T QUIT THE BLUES....but I was wrong, his best is SWEET TEA and IT WILL BLOW YOU AWAY!!!!! I have seen BUDDY 28 times and am seeing him in FEB 2010 with BB KING and can only hope he plays some of the ROOTS TYLES SONGS he plays on this album are a part of his set !!! If he plays one song LORD let it be "LOOK WHAT YOU GOT" !!!!! THIS IS THE BLUES !!!!CONGRATS BUDDY on getting the NUMBER 1 BLUES ALBUM OF THE DECADE. YOU EARNED IT !!!! THANKS FOR THIS ALBUM BUDDY St James For a mere 8.99 you will have never been so well entertained

This record absolultely slays. The blues is not supposed to be dressed up in layer upon layer of awful Nashville style production, at least, not if you're trying to get the real stuff. "Stylized," meaning it sounds raw, because it is. "Baby Please..." will stop you in your tracks. Easily my own personal favorite among all of his releases. Buddy Guy eclipses 95% of all rock/blues guitarrists with one badass collection of cuts.

One of Buddy's all time best albums. Every song has that gritty slow blues feel. When combined with Buddy's voice and lirics, you are in for a real treat! Keep em coming Buddy! You are on of the top all time blues players!!!!!