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Originally Posted by slipkid
The Buddy Guy session puzzles me, because within a year he's playing with Clapton/ Delaney and Bonnie, and playing on "the Festival Express" train tour through Canada in 6-7/70. You have to wonder if the FM Chess sessions convinced Buddy that the English blues wasn't a joke.
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Having read some of Buddy's bio years ago, his frustration wasn't necessarily with Fleetwood Mac, but with Chess. He wanted to do the things that Green, Clapton, and Hendrix were doing, but was being held back by the label. These guys were doing what he wanted to be doing. I don't think it was resentment or envy on Buddy's part, but frustration over the situation. Chess folded shortly after those sessions, so within a year, he must have felt liberated to finally be allowed to do the things he wanted, and he made an amazing album with Junior Wells shortly thereafter.