BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND IN MY OWN DREAM FACTORY SEALED ORIG 1968 PROMO LP MINT

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BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND~IN MY OWN DREAM~FACTORY SEALED ORIG 1968 PROMO LP~MINT!! BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND~IN MY OWN DREAM~FACTORY SEALED ORIG 1968 PROMO LP~MINT!!

The Butterfield Blues Band ?– In My Own Dream
Elektra ?– EKS-74025

EXTREMELY RARE PROMO COPY OF THIS BLUES CLASSIC FROM 1968 - 48 YEARS AGO!!
FACTORY SEALED IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINKWRAP!!
THIS IS THE FIRST PRESSING - NOT A RE-ISSUE!!
UNIPAK GATEFOLD COVER!
FLORESCENT RED STICKER ON THE FRONT!
COVER IS IN NEAR MINT CONDITION EXCEPT FOR A SMALL AMOUNT OF WEAR/DAMAGE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FRONT COVER.
THE COVER IS FACTORY SEALED SO THE RECORD WILL BE MINT!!
THIS IS, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE BEST COPY OF THIS ALBUM WE HAVE EVER HAD THE PLEASURE TO OFFER - AND THE BEST COPY YOU WILL EVER SEE!!!

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band's In My Own Dream -- their fourth official release -- marked the point where the band really began to lose its audience, and all for reasons having nothing to do with the quality of their music. They'd gotten past the loss of Michael Bloomfield in early 1967 (which had lost them some of their audience of guitar idolaters) with the engagingly titled (and guitar-focused) Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw. In My Own Dream has its great guitar moments, especially on "Just to Be with You," but throughout the album, Elvin Bishop's electric guitar shares the spotlight with the horn section of Gene Dinwiddle, David Sanborn, and Keith Johnson, who had signed on with the prior album and who were more out in front than ever. More to the point, this album represented a new version of the band being born, with shared lead vocals, and the leader himself only taking three of the seven songs, with bassist Bugsy Maugh singing lead on two songs, Bishop on one, and drummer Phillip Wilson taking one. What's more, there was a widely shared spotlight for the players, and more of a jazz influence on this record than had ever been heard before from the group. This was a band that could jam quietly for five minutes on "Drunk Again," building ever so slowly to a bluesy crescendo where Bishop's guitar and Mark Naftalin's organ surged; and follow it with the title track, a totally surprising acoustic guitar-driven piece featuring Sanborn, Dinwiddle, and Johnson. The playing is impressive, especially for a record aimed at a collegiate audience, but the record had the bad fortune of appearing at a point when jazz was culturally suspect among the young, an elitist and not easily accessible brand of music that seemed almost as remote as classical. "Get Yourself Together" was almost too good a piece of Chicago-style blues, a faux Chess Records-style track that might even have been too "black" for the remnants of Butterfield's old audience. It also anticipated the group's final change of direction, when it blossomed into a multi-genre blues/jazz/R&B/soul outfit, equally devoted to all four genres and myriad permutations of each.

Tracklist
A1     Last Hope's Gone     4:50
A2     Mine To Love     4:19
A3     Get Yourself Together     4:08
A4     Just To Be With You     6:10
B1     Morning Blues     4:56
B2     Drunk Again     6:35
B3     In My Own Dream     3:49

    Art Direction – William S. Harvey
    Artwork [Cover] – Gene Szafran
    Bass – Bugsy Maugh
    Drums, Congas – Phillip Wilson
    Guitar – Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield (tracks: B3)
    Keyboards – Naffy Markahm*
    Leader, Harmonica – Paul Butterfield
    Liner Notes – Alfred G. Aronowitz
    Mandolin – Gene Dinwiddie* (tracks: B3)
    Organ – Al Kooper (tracks: A4, B2)
    Piano – Keith Johnson (tracks: B2)
    Producer – John Court
    Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Dave Sanborn*
    Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Tambourine – Gene Dinwiddie*
    Trumpet – Keith Johnson
    Vocals – Bugsy Maugh (tracks: A2, B1), Elvin Bishop (tracks: B2), Paul Butterfield (tracks: A1, A4, B3), Phillip Wilson (tracks: A3)

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