Rhythm & Blues (Buddy Guy album)

Rhythm & Blues
Studio album by Buddy Guy
Released	July 30, 2013 (2013-07-30)
Genre	Blues, soul
Label	RCA
Producer	Tom Hambridge
Buddy Guy chronology
Living Proof (2010) Rhythm & Blues (2013) Born to Play Guitar (2015)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	72/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
Exclaim!	8/10
AllMusic

Rhythm & Blues is the 16th studio album by American blues musician Buddy Guy. It was released in July 2013 under RCA Records. Rhythm & Blues marked Guy's largest first week sales in the Soundscan Era, and was his fourth album to reach No. 1 on the Top Blues Albums Chart (following 2010's Living Proof, 2008's Skin Deep, and 2001's Sweet Tea).

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 27 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Top Blues Albums chart. selling 10,000 copies in its first week. The album has sold 55,000 copies in the United States as of July 2015.

Musicians

• Buddy Guy - guitar, lead vocals

Guitars

• BG '89 Fender Custom Strat
• '54 Fender Strat
• Gibson Custom 335
• Gibson Les Paul

• Tom Hambridge - drums, background vocals, tambourine, elephant bells
• Reese Wynans - piano, Hammond B3, Wurlitzer
• Kevin McKendree - piano, Hammond B3, Wurlitzer
• Michael Rhodes - bass
• Tommy McDonald - bass
• David Grissom - guitar
• Rob McNelley - guitar, slide guitar
• The McCrary Sisters - background Vocals
• Jessica Wagner-Cowan, Herschel Boone, Shannon Kurfmann - background vocals
• Wendy Moten - background vocals
• Muscle Shoals Horns

• Charles Rose - trombone, horn arrangements
• Steve Herrman - trumpet
• Jim Horn - baritone saxophone
• Harvey Thompson - tenor saxophone

Guest Musicians

• Kid Rock - vocals
• Keith Urban - guitar, vocals
• Beth Hart - vocals
• Steven Tyler - vocals
• Joe Perry - guitar
• Brad Whitford - guitar
• Gary Clark, Jr. - guitar, vocals

Personnel

• Tom Hambridge - Producer
• Chris Carmichael - Strings and string arrangement
• Recorded by Ducky Carlisle at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee
• Mixed by Ducky Carlisle and Tom Hambridge at Ice Station Zebra in Boston, Massachusetts

Track listing

Disc One - Rhythm

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Best in Town"	Buddy Guy, Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming	4:55
2.	"Justifyin'"	Buddy Guy, Tom Hambridge	3:23
3.	"I Go by Feel"	Tom Hambridge, Gary Nicholson	4:15
4.	"Messin' with the Kid" (featuring Kid Rock)	Mel London	2:33
5.	"What's Up with That Woman"	Tom Hambridge	4:02
6.	"One Day Away" (featuring Keith Urban)	Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming, Scott Holt	3:44
7.	"Well I Done Got Over It"	Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones	2:55
8.	"What You Gonna Do About Me" (featuring Beth Hart)	Tom Hambridge, Lee Roy Parnell, Gary Nicholson	4:39
9.	"The Devil's Daughter"	Buddy Guy, Tom Hambridge	5:15
10.	"Whiskey Ghost"	Tom Hambridge, Gary Nicholson	4:36
11.	"Rhythm Inner Groove"	Buddy Guy, Tom Hambridge	0:34

Disc Two - Blues

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Meet Me in Chicago"	Tom Hambridge, Robert Randolph	3:45
2.	"Too Damn Bad"	Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming	3:06
3.	"Evil Twin" (featuring Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, Brad Whitford)	Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming	5:23
4.	"I Could Die Happy"	Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming	4:13
5.	"Never Gonna Change"	Tom Hambridge, David Gogo	3:20
6.	"All That Makes Me Happy Is the Blues"	Tom Hambridge, Gary Nicholson	4:36
7.	"My Mama Loved Me"	Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming	3:33
8.	"Blues Don't Care" (featuring Gary Clark, Jr.)	Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming	3:26
9.	"I Came Up Hard"	Buddy Guy, Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming	5:28
10.	"Poison Ivy"	Mel London	2:50

Charts

Chart (2013)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)	106
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)	86
French Albums (SNEP)	93
Illegal chart entered Germany2	41
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)	69
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)	46
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)	12
US Billboard 200	27
US Top Blues Albums (Billboard)	1
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)	5