Many, many thanks for the input. Buddy Guy's work had always been in the periphery of my (limited) knowledge of blues guitarists, having on occasion only caught a snatch of a song here and there while cruising the radio dial in the off hours. As stated earlier, the horns and big band accoutrements were always sort of a turn-off.

Collectively, your responses are an inspiration to delve a little deeper into the body of Guy's work. And that's what it's all about. In the meantime, "Sweet Tea" stays in the CD player. It'll be a long time before I get tired of this one.

Other thoughts/impressions/comments/criticisms/reviews/whatever are of course, still welcome.