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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (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 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (CD) Album By Paul Butterfield Blues Band (A...
1   Born In Chicago
2   Shake Your Moneymaker
3   Blues With A Feeling
4   Thank You Mr. Poobah
5   I Got My Mojo Working
6   Mellow Down Easy  
7   Screamin'
8   Our Love Is Drifting
9   Mystery Train
10   Last Night
11   Look Over Yonders Wall
 

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Q (p.126) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[H]e sang and played the blues like a natural..."

Title Note

Personnel: Paul Butterfield (vocals, harmonica); Sam Lay (vocals, drums); Elvin Bishop (guitar); Mike Bloomfield (slide guitar); Jerome Arnold (bass); Mark Naftalin (organ).

Includes liner notes by Pete Welding.

Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Mike Bloomfield.

The '60s Blues Revival begins here. Calling this album influential is an understatement akin to calling the Grand Canyon a rut; suffice to say that an entire generation of musicians (mostly young and white) heard this and had their lives changed forever. In fact, for at least a year after the album's release in 1965, it was impossible to walk down the hall of any college dorm in America without hearing one of the songs here echoing from somebody's room.

Heard today, the thing still packs a wallop. Butterfield's harmonica and vocals are utterly idiomatic, without a hint of minstrelsy. Michael Bloomfield's lead guitar is stinging and eloquent, and the rhythm section, on loan from Howling Wolf, swings like mad. The only fly in the ointment is the fairly primitive production, which often makes Mark Naftalin's keyboards sound like a horde of angry bees, but that's a small criticism in the face of blues playing as passionate and accomplished as this. A genuine classic.

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