"Living Proof" is Buddy Guy's 15th studio album. After nearly 50 years in the music business, this was Guy's highest charting album ever (until the release of Rhythm & Blues in 2013), peaking at no. 46 on the main Billboard album chart. It won the 2011 Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
Original Track Credits:
Buddy Guy – guitars, vocals
David Grissom – guitar
Tommy Macdonald – bass guitar (tr. 5, 6) Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
Tom Hambridge – drums, percussion, tambourine, backing vocals
Reese Wynans – clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3, piano, Wurlitzer - Electric Piano
Carlos Santana – conga and guitar on "Where the Blues Begins".
Bekka Bramlett, Wendy Moten – backing vocals.
lyrics
You take a man and a woman,
That just can't get along,
Sick and tired of doing each other wrong.
Hurtful words are spoken,
precious vows are broken,
Telling both nothing long in here.
Oh, oh, this is where the blues begins.
A young man on the street,
trying hard to make his way
Out there in this mean old world
it gets harder everyday
He tried to fight a good fight,
he was trying a new ride
But the dark side keep closing in.
Oh, oh, this is where the blues begins
Where the blues begins way down on the bottom
You got to struggle to survive
Where the blues begins, hard luck and trouble
Takes its toll on our lives
It's the same old fight,
You know you just can't win,
Oh, oh, this is where the blues begins.
Where the blues begins way down on the bottom
You got to struggle to survive
Where the blues begins, hard luck and trouble
It takes its toll on our lives
It's that same old fight
you know you just can't win
Oh, this is where the blues begins.
It's that same old fight
you know you just can't win
Oh, this is where the blues begins.
credits
from Blue Light Project,
released April 23, 2021
Roee Lavan - Guitars and Lead Guitar, vocals, bass guitar, keyboard, musical production, recording engineer, editing.
Lior Kabesa: Lead electric guitar, Lead Guitar recording engineer.
Alon Tavory: Drums, drums recording engineer.
Daniella Lavie: Back vocals, back vocals recording engineer.
Mix / Master: Oren Latz.
Cerebral palsy curbed his ability to play guitar the conventional way, so Nagoda learned double slide, this is his debut LP.
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