Bad Luck Boy Explained

Bad Luck Boy
Type:	studio
Artist:	Phil Guy
Cover:	Phil_Guy_Bad_Luck_Boy_1983_JSP_LP.jpg
Recorded:	March 1982
Studio:	Soto Sound Studio, Palatine, Illinois
Genre:	Blues
Length:	38:02
Label:	JSP
Producer:	Phil Guy
Prev Title:	The Red Hot Blues of Phil Guy
Prev Year:	1982
Next Title:	It's a Real Mutha Fucka
Next Year:	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

"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

“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

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

• 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)

Notes and References

1. Phil Guy / Bad Luck Boy / JSP Records 1061
2. Web site: Phil Guy - Bad Luck Boy. discogs.com. 1983 .
3. Web site: Phil Guy - All Star Chicago Blues Session. discogs.com. 1988 .
4. Web site: Cold Cold Feeling. secondhandsongs.com.