Play the Blues

Tracklist

• 1
  A Man of Many Words
  4:01
• 2
  My Baby She Left Me (She Left Me a Mule to Ride)
  3:11
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Come on in This House / Have Mercy Baby
  4:23
• 4
  T-Bone Shuffle
  4:19
• 5
  A Poor Man's Plea
  3:13
• 6
  Messin' With the Kid
  2:15
  4.0 ★
• 7
  This Old Fool
  3:11
• 8
  I Don't Know
  4:30
• 9
  Bad Bad Whiskey
  4:14
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Honeydripper
  3:49

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Release credits

• A.C. Reed
  tenor saxophone [1-6, 8-9]
• Ahmet Ertegun
  producer [1-6, 8-9]
• Bobby Warner
  engineer [1, 7]
• Buddy Guy
  guitar, vocal
• Carl Radle
  bass [1]
• Danny Klein
  bass [7, 10]
• Dr. John
  piano [1, 4, 6]
• Eric Clapton
  guitar [1-6, 8-9], producer [1-6, 8-9]
• Gene Paul
  engineer [1, 7]
• Haig Adishian
  design
• Harry Maslin
  remixer
• Jay Geils
  guitar [7, 10]
• Jim Gordon
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Jim Marshall
  photography
• Juke Joint Jimmy
  foot stomps [7, 10]
• Junior Wells
  harmonica [1-6, 8-9], vocal [1-6, 8-9]
• Magic Dick
  harmonica [7, 10]
• Michael Cuscuna
  producer [7, 10]
• Michael Utley
  piano [2-3, 5, 8-9]
• Richard Oulleppe
  recording [7, 10]
• Ron Albert
  recording [1-6, 8-9]
• Roosevelt Shaw
  drums (drum set) [2-6, 8-9]
• Seth Justman
  piano [7, 10]
• Slam Stewart
  bass [2-6, 8-9]
• Stephen Bladd
  drums (drum set) [7], membranophone [10]
• Tom Dowd
  producer [1-6, 8-9]
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Issues

• 

  P
  Play the Blues

  12" Vinyl
  14 August 1972
• 

  P
  Play the Blues

  CD
  1992
• 

  P
  Play the Blues

  2x CD
  30 November 2004
• 

  B
  Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play the Blues

  2x Digital Media (Expanded)
  30 November 2004
• P
  Play the Blues

  2x CD (remastered)
  2005
• 

  P
  Play the Blues

  CD
  3 October 2012
• 

  P
  Play the Blues

  CD (limited edition, reissue, remastered)
  3 October 2012