Left My Blues in San Francisco

Left My Blues in San Francisco
Studio album by Buddy Guy
Released	1967
Recorded	23 April 1965 - 1967, Chicago, IL
Genre	Blues
Length	32:03
Label	Chess
Producer	Gene Barge
Buddy Guy chronology
Left My Blues in San Francisco (1967) A Man and the Blues (1968)

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Left My Blues in San Francisco is the debut studio album by American blues artist Buddy Guy. Future Rotary Connection producer and keyboardist Charles Stepney provided orchestration and drums on some tracks.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Keep It to Myself"	Sonny Boy Williamson	2:30
2.	"Crazy Love"	Willie Dixon	2:20
3.	"I Suffer With the Blues"	Guy	2:44
4.	"When My Left Eye Jumps"	Dixon, Al Perkins	3:53
5.	"Buddy's Groove"	Barge	3:42

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Goin' Home"	Dixon	2:39
7.	"She Suits Me to a Tee"	Guy	2:14
8.	"Leave My Girl Alone"	Guy	3:25
9.	"Too Many Ways"	Dixon	2:14
10.	"Mother-in-Law Blues"	Barge	2:41
11.	"Every Girl I See"	Dixon, Michael M.P. Murphy	3:41

Personnel

• Buddy Guy - vocals, guitar

Additional musicians and production

• Gene Barge - producer, orchestration, Tenor saxophone on tracks 1, 2, 7, 9, 10 and 11
• Lefty Bates - guitar on track 4
• Milton Bland - tenor saxophone on track 8
• Reggie Boyd - bass on tracks 2, 9, and 11
• Malcolm Chisholm - editor
• Jarrett Gibson - tenor saxophone on track 4
• Jerry Griffith - cover photo and album design
• Lafayette Leake - organ on track 4
• Abe Locke - tenor saxophone on track 4
• Ron Malo - supervising engineer
• Jack Meyers - bass on track 4
• Matt Murphy - guitar on tracks 2, 8, 9 and 11
• Dave Purple - editor
• A.C. Reed - tenor saxophone on track 8
• Leroy Stewart - bass on track 8
• Charles Stepney - orchestration, drums on tracks 1, 7, and 10
• Phil Thomas - drums on tracks 2, 4, 9, and 11
• Sonny Turner - trumpet on track 4
• Bill Utterback - illustration
• Phil Upchurch - bass on tracks 1, 7, and 10
• Murray Watson - trumpet on track 4
• Unknown - Baritone saxophone on tracks 1, 7 and 10; bass on tracks 3, 5 and 6; drums on tracks 3, 5, 6 and 8; guitar on tracks 1, 5, 7 and 10; organ on tracks 3 and 8; piano on tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11; and tenor sax on tracks 1, 5, 6, 7 and 10