The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - An Anthology; The Elektra Years (1997) (2 CDs) [Lossless FLAC]

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - An Anthology: The Elektra Years (1997) (2 CDs)







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AMG Bio.txt

AMG Review.txt

Notes.txt (which is simply these notes included in the torrent)



Bio from All Music:



With a style honed in the gritty blues bars of Chicago's south side, the Butterfield Blues Band was instrumental in bringing the sound of authentic Chicago blues to a young white audience in the mid-'60s, and although the band wasn't a particularly huge commercial success, its influence has been enduring and pervasive. The band was formed when singer and harmonica player Paul Butterfield met guitarist and fellow University of Chicago student Elvin Bishop in the early '60s. Bonding over a love of the blues, the pair managed to hijack Howlin' Wolf's rhythm section (bassist Jerome Arnold and drummer Sam Lay) and began gigging in the city's blues houses, where they were spotted in 1964 by producer Paul Rothchild, who quickly had them signed to Elektra Records. Guitar whiz Mike Bloomfield joined the band just before they entered the studio to record their debut album (and in time to be on-stage with the group when they backed up Bob Dylan at his infamous electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival). Organist and pianist Mark Naftalin also came on board during the sessions for the self-titled The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which was released by Elektra late in 1965. Lay became ill around this time, and his drum chair was taken by Billy Davenport, whose jazz and improvisational background came in handy during the recording of the band's second album, the Ravi Shankar-influenced East-West, released in 1966. Bloomfield departed to form Electric Flag in 1967, and Bishop handled all the lead guitar on the more R&B-oriented third album, The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, which was released later that year and featured an entirely new rhythm section of Bugsy Maugh on bass and Phil Wilson on drums. Bishop and Naftalin left the band following the recording of 1968's In My Own Dream, and Butterfield drafted in 19-year-old guitarist Buzzy Feiten to help with the recording of 1969's Keep On Moving, which also featured the return of drummer Billy Davenport. After a live album in 1970 and the lackluster Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin', released in 1971, Butterfield put the band to rest. In retrospect, the Butterfield Blues Band had pretty much put their cards on the table in their first two albums, both of which are classics of the era, featuring a heady mixture of folk, rock, psychedelia, and even Indian classical music played over an embedded base of good old Chicago blues.



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All Music Album Review:



An Anthology -- The Elektra Years is a double-disc, 33-song set that offers a comprehensive overview of Paul Butterfield's eight years with the label. His first two albums, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and East-West, were seminal, groundbreaking records that blurred the boundaries between blues, jazz and rock, suggesting everything from blues-rock to psychedelia. They were stunning achievements which proved difficult to match, but Butterfield's remaining albums for the label all had a few good cuts. An Anthology does a nice job of rounding up those highlights, picking the best moments from uneven records; consequently, it's quite a valuable package for listeners who simply want a sampling from those later albums instead of purchasing them individually. Butterfield's first two albums remain necessary listens in their own right, but this set offers an excellent summary of his entire stint with Elektra.



Taken from: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a9fqxqrjld0e



Amazon has this album: http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Paul-Butterfield-Blues-Band/dp/B000002HRB



Track List:



Disc 1:



01. Born In Chicago

02. Lovin' Cup

03. One More Mile

04. Off The Wall

05. Come On In

06. Nut Popper #1

07. Ain't No Need To Go No Further, It's Too Late Brother

08. Born In Chicago

09. 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:



01. One More Heartache

02. Double Trouble

03. Last Hope's Gone

04. Mornin' Blues

05. Just To Be With You

06. Get Yourself Together

07. In My Own Dream

08. Love March

09. 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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