My all-time favorite album is Buddy Guy's "A Man and The Blues," recorded for Vanguard in about 1967-68 or so, if I'm not mistaken. It is a rare recorded collaboration between Buddy and the great Chicago blues pianist Otis Spann, longtime bandmate of Muddy Waters. I owned, wore out, and eventually lost a vinyl copy in the 60s-70s, and then went through the same experience with a casette tape edition during the 90s. I suppose it's about time for me to buy the CD.

About half the cuts are slow blues, and they're by far the longest cuts, making the album at least 60-70% s-l-o-o-o-w blues, intersersed with a few brief uptempo numbers. Both Buddy and Otis are masters of the slow-blues form, and it is absolutley excruciating to hear them trade licks throughout the long instumental passages between verses of the slow songs. Titles of a couple of the more notable cuts: "Worry, Worry, Worry" and "Thousand Miles from Nowhere":

Sittin' here a thousand miles from nowhere
In my little one room country shack (2x)
My only worrisome companion
Is this here 'leven-foot cotton sack.

(One of the albums quick little uptempo tunes is a favorite of mine, too: Buddy's unique interpretation of "Mary Had a Little Lamb.")