''Hold That Plane!'' is the third studio album by

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guitarist

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. It was recorded in November 1969, but not released by

Vanguard Records Vanguard Recording Society is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York City. It was a primarily classical label at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, but also has a catalogue of recordings by a n ...

until 1972.

History

Buddy Guy had no luck with the record companies. Although he had recorded for

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since 1958 (mostly as a sideman), his first full-length album wasn't released until ten years later (consisting of material recorded between 1965 and 1967). After leaving Chess, Buddy signed with

who released his second LP in 1968. Though this was a good period for Buddy (he was under new management who organized a lot of live work- especially for big music festivals), and he was popular with black and white audiences as a result, his recording career was still full of unfulfilled promise. A new band (including his brother

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on rhythm guitar) recorded these tracks in November 1969, but they inexplicably weren't released until almost three years later in 1972. Including two Guy originals (one written with his brother Phil), fiery covers of the

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classic "I'm Ready" and the

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hit "You Don't Love Me" (regularly covered by

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at this time). The album opens with a funky adaptation of

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's modern jazz classic "Watermelon Man".

Track listing

Personnel

* Buddy Guy – guitar, vocals *

– guitar *

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– tenor saxophone *

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– alto saxophone *

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– piano * Earnest Johnson – bass * Jesse Lewis – drums Additional musicians * Bill Folwell – bass on "Watermelon Man" *

Barry Altschul Barry Altschul (born January 6, 1943, New York City) is a free jazz and hard bop drummer who first came to notice in the late 1960s for performing with pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea. Biography Altschul is of Russian Jewish heritage, the s ...

– drums on "Watermelon Man" * Mark Jordan – piano on "Come See About Me" *

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– bass on "Come See About Me" * David "Rip" Stock – drums on "Come See About Me" ;Technical *Jules Halfant - album design *

Joel Brodsky Joel Lee Brodsky (October 7, 1939 – March 1, 2007) was an American photographer, best known for his photography of musicians, particularly his iconic "Young Lion" photographs of Jim Morrison. In his lifetime, he is credited with photographing o ...

- cover photography

References

{{Authority control Buddy Guy albums Vanguard Records albums Albums produced by Michael Cuscuna 1972 albums Albums with cover art by Joel Brodsky