BUDDY GUY - STONE CRAZY

STONE CRAZY

BUDDY GUY

SONGWRITER: BUDDY GUY

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: I WAS WALKIN’ THROUGH THE WOOD

LABEL: ALLIGATOR

GENRE: BLUE

YEAR: 1979

 

          George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is an exponent of Chicago blues and has influenced guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr. and John Mayer. In the 1960s, Guy played with Muddy Waters as a house guitarist at Chess Records and began a musical partnership with the harmonica player Junior Wells.

         Guy was ranked 23rd in Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". His song "Stone Crazy" was ranked 78th in the Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". Clapton once described him as "the best guitar player alive". In 1999, Guy wrote the book Damn Right I've Got the Blues, with Donald Wilcock. His autobiography, When I Left Home: My Story, was published in 2012.

          The Blues Giant (also known as Stone Crazy!) is the fourth studio album by Buddy Guy. It was an attempt to capture Buddy's ferocious live performance style in a studio setting. It contains some of his most aggressive and unpredictable guitar solos.

            The 1970s was a very hard time for traditional Blues musicians. Only one Buddy Guy studio album had been released in that decade (Hold That Plane! - recorded in 1969, released in 1972), until he and his band entered Concoret Studios in Toulouse, France for these sessions. Buddy was pleased to record with French producer Didier Tricard. To release this album, Tricard founded a new label, named "Isabel" by Buddy Guy after his mother.

Woman you must be stone down crazy

Either you're going to lose your mind

Yes I said baby you must be stone crazy

Either you're going to lose your mind

Yes I wanna know how could you treat me so dirty baby

You must think my little heart is made of iron

 

Lord as I sit here in my dark room

Tears rolling down from my eyes

Yes I sit I sit here in my dark room

Tears rolling all down from my eyes

Yes you know my little baby looked at me and said daddy

Ohh, God knows you're the hurted child

 

Oh yeah

Somebody come and get me

 

Yes I think I'm going back down south

People where the weather suits my clothes

Yes I said I'm going back down south

People where the weather suits my clothes

Yes you know that I'm playing around in this big city so long man

Ohh, 'till I'm almost just done froze

 

Darling you must be stone crazy

Or either you're going to lose your mind

Yes I said woman you must be stone down crazy

Either you're going to lose your mind

Yes I wanna know how could you treat me so low down and dirty

You must be think my little heart is made of iron

 

Wow as I sit here in my dark room

Tears rolling all down my eyes

Yes I sit I sit right here right here in my dark room

Tears rolling all down from my eyes

Yes you know my little girl looked at me and said

Ohh, my daddy is a hurted child

 

Ohh, Look-a-here now

Somebody come here

 

Lord I believe I'm going back down south

Where the weather suits my clothes

Yes I believe I'm going back down south

People where the weather suits my clothes

Yes you know that I've played around in these big cities so long man

Ohh, 'till I'm almost done froze.