Living Proof (Buddy Guy album)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	74/100^[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]
Billboard	(favourable)^[4]
Chicago Tribune	^[5]
Rolling Stone	^[6]
Classic Rock	^[7]

Living Proof is Buddy Guy's 26th studio album. After nearly fifty years in the music business, this was Buddy'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.^[8]

The album loosely follows the progression of Buddy Guy's life. "Living Proof was designed partially as an aural autobiography from the legendary Buddy Guy, opening up with the stark summation “74 Years Young,” then running through songs that often address some aspect of a working musician's life."^[3]

Musicians

Buddy Guy – Guitars, Vocals^[9]
David Grissom – Guitar
Tommy Macdonald, Michael Rhodes – Bass
Tom Hambridge – Drums, Percussion, Tambourine, Vocals (Background)
Marty Sammon – Piano
Reese Wynans – Clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3, Piano, Wurlitzer
B.B. King – Guitar and Vocals on "Stay Around a Little Longer"
Carlos Santana – Conga and Guitar on "Where the Blues Begins"
Jack Hale – Trombone
Wayne Jackson – Trumpet
Tom McGinley – Tenor Saxophone
The Memphis Horns – Horns
Bekka Bramlett, Wendy Moten – Background Vocals

Personnel

Tom Hambridge - Producer
Vance Powell, John Netti, Jim Reitzel, Rob Root, Colin Linden, Michael St. Leon – Engineers
Ducky Carlisle – Mixing Engineer
Nick Autry – Assistant Engineer, Production Assistant
Mike Rooney, Joel Margolis – Assistant Engineers
Gilbert Garza – Guitar Tech
Ray Kennedy – Mastering

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"74 Years Young"	Tom Hambridge, Gary Nicholson	4:34^[3]
2.	"Thank Me Someday"	Buddy Guy, Tom Hambridge	5:42
3.	"On the Road"	Richard Fleming, Hambridge	4:11
4.	"Stay Around a Little Longer" (feat. B.B. King)	Tom Hambridge, Nicholson	5:00
5.	"Key Don't Fit"	Tom Hambridge, Nicholson	5:02
6.	"Living Proof"	Tom Hambridge	3:45
7.	"Where the Blues Begins" (feat. Carlos Santana)	Tom Hambridge, Nicholson	4:37
8.	"Too Soon"	Fleming, Guy, Tom Hambridge	3:26
9.	"Everybody's Got to Go"	Fleming, Guy, Tom Hambridge	3:57
10.	"Let the Door Knob Hit Ya"	Guy, Tom Hambridge	3:44
11.	"Guess What"	Fleming, Tom Hambridge	5:44
12.	"Skanky"	Guy, Tom Hambridge	4:16

Charts

Chart (2010)	Peak position
French Albums (SNEP)^[10]	126
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[11]	75
US Billboard 200^[12]	46
US Top Blues Albums (Billboard)^[13]	1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)^[14]	10
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)^[15]	8

References

↑ "Stay Around a Little Longer". iTunes. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
↑ "Living Proof Reviews". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
1 2 3 Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Living Proof Review". Allmusic. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
↑ Graff, Gary (15 October 2010). "Buddy Guy, "Living Proof"". Billboard. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
↑ Kot, Greg (22 October 2010). "Album review: Buddy Guy, 'Living Proof'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
↑ Kemp, Mark (26 October 2010). "Living Proof by Buddy Guy". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
↑ Murray, Charles Shaar (January 2011). "Buddy Guy – Living Proof". Classic Rock. 153. London, UK: Future plc. pp. 106–107. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ "And The GRAMMY Went To ... Buddy Guy". Grammy.org. February 25, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
↑ "Living Proof Credits". All Music Guide. 26 October 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
↑ "Lescharts.com – Buddy Guy – Living Proof". Hung Medien.
↑ "Swisscharts.com – Buddy Guy – Living Proof". Hung Medien.
↑ "Buddy Guy – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Buddy Guy.
↑ "Buddy Guy – Chart history" Billboard Top Blues Albums for Buddy Guy.
↑ "Buddy Guy – Chart history" Billboard Top Rock Albums for Buddy Guy.
↑ "Buddy Guy – Chart history" Billboard Top Tastemaker Albums for Buddy Guy.

Buddy Guy

Studio albums	I Left My Blues in San Francisco (1967) A Man and the Blues (1968) Breaking Out (1980) Damn Right, I've Got the Blues (1991) Feels Like Rain (1993) Slippin' In (1994) Sweet Tea (2001) Blues Singer (2003) Bring 'Em In (2005) Skin Deep (2008) Living Proof (2010) Rhythm & Blues (2013) Born to Play Guitar (2015)

Collaboration albums	Hoodoo Man Blues (1965) Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (1993)

Compilation albums	Buddy's Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy (1999)

Live albums	Live at Legends (2012)

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