BUDDY GUY
Recorded live at the Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, IL
Saturday June 28th, 2025

Recorded by Roy right under the amps stage left using a set of Sound Professionals
SP-CMC-8 Premium Audio Technica Cardioid mics plugged into a Sound Professionals
stereo preamp plugged into a Zoom H4n Pro @ 24-bit/96kHz. Roy was skeptical
with the sound mix & originally wanted a front row balcony ticket but when a front
row floor was offered, he took it & the pictures made it worthwhile. Buddy's guitar
was sounding great but, while speaking, he would stand a foot away from his mic,
forcing the audience to hush up to hear (with some people continuing to shout at him).

Lineage: audience capture from front row house right @ 24-96 WAV > 16-bit/44.1kHz WAV >
gentle EQ, fades, combine into one 80:36 WAV > track splits > FLACs
Audacity used for everything except track splits (CD Wave Editor) & FLAC Level 8 encoding
(Trader's Little Helper)

Did the best on the setlist. Buddy's setlist is like gumbo: a lil' of this & a lil' that.
You never know what Buddy's gonna throw in the stew. The Ronnie Baker Brooks Band opened
& Ronnie joins the stage at the end of the show (it's mostly his soloing you hear on the
final track).

Setlist (80:36)

01. introduction (1:50)
02. Damn Right, I Got The Blues (5:53)
03. Hoochie Coochie Man >
Buddy raps about smiling faces & loving everyone >
Nineteen Years Old >
Love Me With A Feeling >
Cheaper To Keep Her (16:51)
04. I Just Wanna Make Love To You > Chicken Heads (5:39)
05. Fever (3:14)
06. Buddy raps to an idiot (1:55)
07. Boogie Chillin' (tease) (1:52)
08. Buddy raps about growing up in Louisiana, turning 89 (1:52)
09. Drownin' On Dry Land (3:00)
10. How Blue Can You Get (5:20)
11. Grits Ain't Groceries > All Around The World (7:50)
12. Sunshine Of Your Love >
soloing using drumstick & towel >
Take Me To The River (3:13)
13. Buddy raps about growing up, smoking & chewing, promise to his mother (3:39)
14. Skin Deep (4:49)
15. Buddy raps about kill or be killed & drinking a beer (1:14)
16. Buddy introduces his son, Greg Guy (1:25)
17. Mad Love > Close To You (11:44)












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