Sweet Dreams: The Anthology

Sweet Dreams: The Anthology
Compilation album by Roy Buchanan
Released September 22, 1992 (1992-09-22)
Recorded 1969–78
Genre Blues
Label Polydor (#D201160)
Roy Buchanan chronology
Early Years
(1989)
Sweet Dreams: The Anthology
(1992)
Guitar on Fire: The Atlantic Sessions
(1993)

Sweet Dreams: The Anthology is a compilation album by American guitarist and blues musician Roy Buchanan. The double CD contains released as well as previously unreleased recordings, live and studio. According to Mike Joyce, who reviewed the album in the Washington Post, it "presents the good, the bad and the unreleased from Buchanan's tenure with the Polydor and Atlantic labels."[1] The anthology is part of PolyGram's "Chronicles" retrospective series.[2]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Baltimore" (Charlie Daniels) 3:31
2. "Black Autumn" (Charlie Daniels) 4:25
3. "The Story of Isaac" (Leonard Cohen) 5:48
4. "There'll Always Be" (Charlie Daniels) 4:50
5. "Sweet Dreams" (Don Gibson) 3:32
6. "Pete's Blues" (Buchanan) 7:15
7. "The Messiah Will Come Again" (Buchanan) 5:53
8. "Tribute to Elmore James" (Buchanan) 3:25
9. "After Hours" (Avery Parrish, Buddy Feyne, Robert Bruce) 6:14
10. "Five String Blues" (Buchanan) 6:24
11. "C.C. Rider (live)" (Traditional) 6:49
12. "My Baby Says She's Gonna Leave Me" (Buchanan, John Harrison, Billy Price) 3:21
13. "Please Don't Turn Me Away" (Buchanan, Billy Price) 4:47
14. "Country Preacher" (Joe Zawinul) 3:28
15. "Wayfaring Pilgrim" (Buchanan, Ed Freeman) 5:07
No. Title Length
1. "Down by the River (live)" (Neil Young) 9:17
2. "I'm A Ram (live)" (Al Green, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges) 4:24
3. "I'm Evil (live)" (Buchanan) 6:15
4. "Good God Have Mercy" (Billy Roberts) 4:05
5. "If Six Was Nine" (Jimi Hendrix) 3:46
6. "Green Onions" (Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T. Jones, Lewie Steinberg) 8:09
7. "Soul Dressing (live)" (Booker T. Jones) 7:00
8. "Hey Joe (live)" (Billy Roberts) 8:19
9. "Fly...Night Bird" (Buchanan, Andy Newmark, Jean Roussel, Raymond Silva, Willie Weeks) 7:42
10. "Turn To Stone" (Terry Trebandt, Joe Walsh) 5:46
11. "Dual Soliloquy" (Buchanan) 12:06

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

Lindsay Planer, in a review on Allmusic, writes in a review that gives the album 4.5 out of 5 stars, "until Buchanan's catalog is given a thorough overhaul, Sweet Dreams: The Anthology (1992) is a satisfying overview of the man once dubbed 'The Best Unknown Guitarist in the World.'"[4] Mike Joyce of the Washington Post was most impressed with "a gorgeous guitar reading of 'Sweet Dreams,'" besides the live songs, especially "an expansive and expressive version of Neil Young's 'Down by the River' (featuring Billy Price on vocals)."[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Joyce, Mike (July 23, 1993). "Washington's G(uitar) Men". The Washington Post. p. N22.
  2. Hilburn, Robert (November 13, 1992). "Rediscovering Appeal of Early Rod Stewart". Los Angeles Times. p. 23.
  3. Allmusic review
  4. Planer, Lindsay. "Rev. of Roy Buchanan, Sweet Dreams". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
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