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An Anthology: The Elektra Years (CD)

By: Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Artist)

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Paul Butterfield Artist Snapshot:

Singer/harmonica player Paul Butterfield and his band were from Chicago and well-schooled in that city's urban blues scene. Their first two albums of modernized Chicago blues not only created a critical stir, but led to large-scale interest in electric blues amongst the then-embryonic hippie generation. Members of the Butterfield band (most notably guitar whiz Mike Bloomfield) also played a key role in rock history by helping Bob Dylan along in his transition to electric music. Butterfield's 1966 album EAST-WEST was strikingly prescient in its incorporation of Eastern modalities. By the mid-'70s he was getting into the post-Woodstock rural vibe with his BETTER DAYS band. Though Butterfield's salad days were far behind him when he passed away in the late-'80s, he had changed both the blues and rock worlds irrevocably.

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DISC 1 for An Anthology: The Elektra Years (CD) Album By Paul Butterfield Blues Band (A...
1   Born In Chicago
2   Lovin' Cup
3   One More Mile
4   Off The Wall
5   Come On In
6   Nut Popper #1
7   Ain't No Need To Go No Further / It's Too Late Brother
8   Born In Chicago
9   Shake Your Money Maker
10   Blues With A Feeling
11   Thank You Mr. Poobah
12   Our Love Is Driftin'
13   Mystery Train
14   Last Night
15   Walkin' Blues
16   I Got A Mind To Give Up Living
17   Work Song
18   All These Blues
19   East West
 
DISC 2 for An Anthology: The Elektra Years (CD) Album By Paul Butterfield Blues Band (A...
1   One More Heartache
2   Double Trouble
3   Last Hope's Gone
4   Mornin' Blues
5   Just To Be With You
6   Get Yourself Together
7   In My Own Dream
8   Love March
9   Walkin' By Myself
10   Love Disease
11   Everything's Gonna Be Alright
12   Driftin' & Driftin'
13   Blind Leading The Blind
14   Song For Lee
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (2/13/98, p.71) - "...eloquently attests to the PBBB's formidable mastery of da blues, as well as its ability to stretch the genre's ostensible limitations to the snapping point..." - Rating: A

Title Note

Personnel: Paul Butterfield (vocals, harp, flute, harmonica, piano); Gene Dinwiddie (vocals, flute, tenor saxophone); Bugsy Maugh (vocals, bass); Phillip Wilson (vocals, drums, percussion); Mike Bloomfield (guitar, slide guitar, piano, Hammond organ); Elvin Bishop, Buzz Feiten (guitar, French horn); Ralph Wash (guitar, background vocals); David Sanborn (soprano, alto & baritone saxophones); Trevor Lawrence (baritone saxophone); Steve Madaio, Keith Johnson (trumpet); Mark Naftalin (piano, keyboards, organ); Ted Harris (piano, keyboards); Al Kooper (organ); Rod Hicks (bass, background vocals); Jerome Arnold (bass); Billy Davenport (drums, percussion); Dennis Whitted, Sam Lay (drums); Bobby Hall (congas, bongos); Big Black (congas); John Court, Clydie King, Merry Clayton, Venetta Fields, Oma Drake (background vocals).

Includes liner notes by Tom Ellis III.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Everyone should own the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's first two albums, groundbreaking works that are among the most important and influential of the '60s. This two-disc distillation of the band's entire eight-year oeuvre is nonetheless a terrific overview, with a generous selection of tracks from those first two seminal efforts, plus all the crucial stuff from the band's inconsistent-but-still-worthy later LPs, along with a couple of early rarities making their CD debut.

Disc One is by the original band, a musical powerhouse that began as the toughest blues band in the world and eventually evolved into a free-form psychedelic jam outfit. Disc Two collects the best stuff from Butterfield's late '60s horn band albums; this incarnation was the obvious model for both Blood Sweat & Tears and Chicago, but Butterfield's ensemble was far grittier and more musically adventurous.

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