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Bad Luck Boy
Bad Luck Boy
Studio album by
Phil Guy
Released1983 (1983)
RecordedMarch 1982
StudioSoto Sound Studio, Palatine, Illinois
GenreBlues
Length38:02
LabelJSP
ProducerPhil Guy
Phil Guy chronology
The Red Hot Blues of Phil Guy
(1982) 		Bad Luck Boy
(1983) 		It's a Real Mutha Fucka
(1985)

Bad Luck Boy is the second album by blues musician Phil Guy, recorded in March 1982 and released on JSP Records in 1983.

Background and recordings

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"Bad Luck Boy" was recorded at the same session, like Phil Guy’s previous album The Red Hot Blues of Phil Guy, but it was released a year later. The album’s last two tracks was recorded in December 1981, also in the Soto Sound Studio, when they recorded DJ Play My Blues for Buddy Guy.[1]

Release

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“Bad Luck Boy” released only on vinyl in 1983. Tracks 1-4 were released on Phil Guy’s All Star Chicago Blues Session compilation CD in 1994 by JSP, while tracks 5-6 were released on Buddy Guy’s DJ Play My Blues CD.[2][3]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Phil Guy & Eddie Lusk; except where noted.

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bad Luck Boy" 9:04
2."Money"Berry Gordy, Janie Bradford4:03
3."Breaking Out On Top" 7:18
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
4."Cold Feeling" 8:50
5."Mellow Down"Willie Dixon5:50
6."Comin' On"Phil Guy, Buddy Guy2:57

Note

  • “Bad Luck Boy” is a rework of "Born Under a Bad Sign", written by Booker T. Jones and William Bell. Although "Cold Feeling" credited to Phil Guy and Eddie Lusk, originally written by Jesse Mae Robinson.[4]

Personnel

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  • Phil Guy – guitar, vocals
  • Buddy Guy – guitar
  • Doug Williams – guitar
  • Professor Eddie Lusk – keyboards (tracks 1-4)
  • J. W. Williams – bass (tracks 1-4)
  • Mike Morrison – bass (tracks 5-6)
  • Ray Allison – drums
  • Maurice John Vaughn - saxophone (tracks 1-4)
  • Larry Cox - harmonica (credited, but he doesn't play on these tracks)

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