Buddy Guy: Skin Deep
Dec 3rd, 2008 by mallen
Check Our Catalog“Touted as his first album of original material, Skin Deep does work as an effective showcase for Buddy’s most original voice: his wild, gnarly guitar. The production may be crisp and clean but Buddy refuses to play polite, messing up the pristine surfaces with big, nasty, ugly smears of guitar…Elsewhere, the music slips toward the conventional, but at least it sounds like Guy is trying to reel it back in with that monstrous guitar, which can still sound wondrous. It’s kind of fun to hear the accidental tension between Guy’s guitar and the slick surfaces, but when he’s paired with a band or production that matches his grit, Skin Deep is so good that it’s hard not to wish the whole record sounded just like that.”—All Music Guide