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| | The Original Lost Elektra Sessions | | | Music Artist : | | The Paul Butterfield Blues Band | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Elektra / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1995-07-18 | | Store Price : | | $13.96 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.96 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
2. Just to Be with You
3. Help Me
4. Hate to See You Go
5. Poor Boy
6. Nut Popper #1
7. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
8. Lovin' Cup
9. Rock Me
10. It Hurts Me Too
11. Our Love Is Driftin'
12. Take Me Back, Baby
13. Mellow Down Easy
14. Ain't No Need to Go No Further
15. Love Her with a Feeling
16. Piney Brown Blues
17. Spoonful
18. That's All Right
19. Goin' Down Slow
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Essential Blues
Submitted on: 2009-11-06 |
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| This is essential music for any blues fan, the best Butterfield Blues Band recordings. Butterfield and Bloomfield with Sam Lay on drums. A great band, exceptional sessions. This is Chicago blues at its best, ranking up there with the recordings of Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf and Magic Sam. Young white musicians except for Chicago veterans on bass and drums. There is no living vocalist/harp player who compares to Butterfield. Those who were in his league are no longer with us. Bloomfield, while influenced by blues players, was a virtuoso with an original approach that went beyond what was being played at the time. Too bad they both died long before their time. |
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Butterfield's Masterwork?! Yet unreleased?!!
Submitted on: 2009-01-19 |
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Listen to the tour de force "Hate to See You Go". Butterfield at his most primal and vicious. He is just so damn excited to be playing harp! The one absolutely essential track on the album, in my opinion, but this is a collection which is filled with gems. Or, perhaps, all the tracks sound about the same. I mean, if you don't like track one, GMLSG, you aren't gonna like this album. Butterfield's timing is distictive, and this means that the full flavor of his music is contained in each bite. In fact, this may betray my OCD, but I have broken most of these cuts apart note by note, for example, the first six notes of GMLSG, (he's using 3 blow, not 2 draw, on the first note, which is what gives this track its hyperactive intensity) I have recorded just this snipet of sound, and listened to it many, many times, sometimes at half-speed, becasue the timing is unique and compelling. Yet, so simple and straightforward. Two god-damn notes, and yet, unutterable. Paul plays like pure poetry. So, I do take issue with your statement "not highly original". While staying true to the tradition, Butterfield injects his own absolutely idiosyncratic timing, and this why I would pay $899, let alone $8.99, for one of my most favorite albums, the ORIGINAL lost elektra sessions.
Note to Butterfield acolytes: If you love this album, you must own "Fathers and Sons", which is Bloomfield, Butterfield, and Muddy Waters, 1969. I think this contains Buttefield's most brilliant playing, and he's a backing man, so, more harp, and Muddy Waters!! Plus, tons of Bloomfield. Sublime.
Also, I just noticed this, while browsing Amazon, but the album covers for Lost Elektra and the debut album both use a two-thirds, one third pictoral split. Cool.
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THIN WILD MERCURY!
Submitted on: 2008-04-04 |
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I recommend this album to anyone who likes Bob Dylan's second masterpiece [not second album], Blonde On Blonde, as these 2 albums have that same THIN WILD MERCURY SOUND.
I'm not here to give a second rate, third rate, fourth rate history lesson, just recommending an EXCELLENT album, by an EXCELLENT blues band, what a shame this was scrapped at first... then again there's much more room for appreciation now... |
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Paul sings on all tracks
Submitted on: 2008-01-21 |
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| A must have for all blues lovers as well as those who need to hear the voice of the consumate blues man,Paul Butterfield. I know I was thrilled to hear these early recordings that were recorded before the release of the first album and featuring the original line-up. |
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There Were 5 Essential Butterfield Albums, Now Make It 6. (and now 3 of them are must haves).
Submitted on: 2007-03-31 |
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| This album is a rare, and precious gem that fits quite comfortably between the first album, and East-West. The people at Elektra discovered that sometimes true gold can be found without digging in a gold mine. And they struck real gold, not fools gold. And on the list of gems are songs like Spoonful, Everything's Gonna Be Alright (which I haven't heard since the release of Woodstock 2), Mellow Down Easy (the only repeat out of 19 songs), Rock Me, and Poor Boy. This is not only to be added to the Essentials list, but the top 2 must haves have now become three. |
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