An Anthology -- The Elektra Years
It might be impossible to overestimate the importance of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band on American music in the latter half of the '60's. Unlike British blues revivalists The Rolling Stones, the Butterfield band was schooled in the tough Chicago bars that housed Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Howlin' Wolf. They didn't imitate the blues, they were the blues. They were also virtuoso instrumentalists to the man; and the extended raga-like "East-West," powered by Butterfield's defiant harmonica and the guitars of Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield, virtually created the concept of psychedelic jamming. This 2 CD set profiles the best of their massively influential early work, and samples later R&B-inflected, horn-driven material as well. Essential for blues fans. --Michael Ruby more
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An Anthology: The Elektra Years
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-01-2008
- Butterfield Blues Band at its best
These Electra sessions recordings include almost all of the songs from the original Butterfield Blues Band album and many more. It is a classic. Butterfield and Bloomfield with the rest of the original cast, including Sam Lay on drums....
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-26-2008
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band
My grandson who,s 17 is lead guitar in a high school rock combo, and we talked about simultaneous pulsating energy and virtuoso parts for the singer and lead guitar together. I started thinking about 1965-66 in Chicago and recalled the...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-11-2006
- For Butterfield and his concept
You really have to have em' all .All fans have their favorites , and some will be left off a compilation such as this .. You cant please everybody .One thing I noticed there were far more tracks from the 'Lost Electra Sessions' than...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Apr-08-2006
- Not typical of Chicago Blues
CD album not what I thought it was....Of course PB plays a mouth harp.....of course, the songs sometimes all sound alike...that is why he's not a ZZ, BB or whatever. One maybe two songs on these 2 cd's I like.....the rest go in file 13....
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Selected Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-01-2008
- Butterfield Blues Band at its best
These Electra sessions recordings include almost all of the songs from the original Butterfield Blues Band album and many more. It is a classic. Butterfield and Bloomfield with the rest of the original cast, including Sam Lay on drums....
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Apr-08-2006
- Not typical of Chicago Blues
CD album not what I thought it was....Of course PB plays a mouth harp.....of course, the songs sometimes all sound alike...that is why he's not a ZZ, BB or whatever. One maybe two songs on these 2 cd's I like.....the rest go in file 13....
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