PAUL BUTTERFIELD'S BEST/GOLDEN BUTTER/WHITE LABEL PROMO
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Description
THE BEST OF THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND:
GOLDEN BUTTER
Labels: Elektra White Labels
Mode: Stereo
Rarity: Yes
Original Year of Release: 1972
Catalogue Number: K62011
Sleeve: Double gatefold in superb condition. Very slight handling wear to corners, no damage.
Inner: White
Insert: None
Matrices: Record #1: A1, D1 Record #2: B1,C1
Vinyl Weight: 120 grams
Vinyl Condition & Grading: Played once, the vinyl is near mint.
Album Played For Grading: Yes. (Equipment: Linn Sondek LP12, Linn Ekos arm, Linn K9 moving coil cartridge, tracking at 2 grams into a Cambridge Audio Azur 340A amp and out to a pair of Bose speakers with a Super Woofer)
Though their luster had faded by 1972, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band had already earned their measure of immortality by first popularizing and then pushing the boundaries of the blues. This influential outfit recorded two acknowledged classics, their eponymous debut and the subsequent East-West, which account for the first two sides of Golden Butter. Here you'll find the straight-ahead Chicago blues of their debut ("Born in Chicago," "Mellow Down Easy," "Look Over Yonders Wall") and the prescient psychedelic blues-rock of their second effort ("East-West," "Mary, Mary"). The last two sides of this compilation draw from the Elektra anthology What's Shakin' ("Spoonful," "One More Mile"), a pair of tracks each from their third and fourth albums, and a song from each of their last three albums. Delivered in chronological order, Golden Butter offers an accurate miniature of the band's unraveling from blues ambassadors to innovators to increasingly irrelevant icons. Yet if the band's fire burned briefly, it burned brightly, casting a shadow that remained visible throughout the decade in the music of Cream, Steve Miller Band, and many others. And even toward the end of their career, the band had an authentic understanding of the blues that few could match (a point underscored here with a live version of "Driftin' and Driftin'").
Track Listing
1 Born in Chicago
2 Shake Your Moneymaker
3 Mellow Down Easy
4 Our Love Is Drifting
5 Mystery Train
6 Look Over Yonders Wall
7 East-West
8 Walkin' Blues
9 Get Out of My Life, Woman
10 Mary, Mary
11 Spoonful
12 One More Mile
13 One More Heartache
14 Last Hope's Gone
15 In My Own Dream
16 Love March
17 Driftin' and Driftin'
18 Blind Leading the Blind
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