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| | Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw/In My Own Dream | | | Music Artist : | | The Paul Butterfield Blues Band | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Rhino/Wea UK | | Release Date : | | 2004-08-23 | | Discs : | | 2 | | Store Price : | | $31.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $31.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. One More Heartache
2. Driftin' and Driftin'
3. Pity the Fool
4. Born Under a Bad Sign
5. Run Out of Time
6. Double Trouble
7. Drivin' Wheel
8. Droppin' Out
9. Tollin' Bells
Disc 21. Last Hope's Gone
2. Mine to Love
3. Get Yourself Together
4. Just to Be With You
5. Morning Blues
6. Drunk Again
7. In My Own Dream
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Pig Boy
Submitted on: 2009-11-13 |
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| Excellent CD. I have always been a fan of this band and the talent of the musicians in it. If you like the Chicago style electric blues you will like this CD. |
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Dave Sanborne is the man!
Submitted on: 2009-08-17 |
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| Was quite surprised upon hearing this for the first time. I love both albums a lot & I like them better than the first two Butterfield Band albums & also better than Electric Flag & the other horn bands of that era. Their first two albums have two much soloing, whereas these are more laid back & each person doesn't step on each other toes. Elvin Bishop is the same today. He is a great support player & steps up to the plate when it's his turn to bat. Dave Sanborne is on fire, especially on In My Own Dream. Everyone who is a true blues fan should own the EU versions of these twofers. They are a little pricey, but worth every penny. |
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A Must For Any True Butterfield Fan
Submitted on: 2006-11-25 |
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This compilation is a must for any true Paul Butterfield fan. It stands as one of the most creative of a number of creative turns by Butterfield through the course of his career.
A seemingly abrupt change in direction after fronting a high profile band with legendary status might be daunting for most artists - considering an unforgiving public that doesn't readily accept change - but not so for Butterfield. His take on the Blues was that it was a feeling rather than a genre restricted to a specific form. As such, he sought to realize a vision of a free blowing band covering straight ahead Blues, R&B, and anything else that fit the "feeling" of Blues. Make no mistake, this band may not have had the Bloomfield - Bishop era notoriety but was just as influential; spawning the likes of Blood Sweat & Tears and The Chicago Transit Authority.
The first cd, The Resurrection Of Pigboy Crabshaw, finds the band testing the waters, hence the dependency on covers. That being said, the covers are anything but straight copies of the originals and serve as a baseline for the high degree of musicianship that the band brought to the table. Elvin Bishop, (aka Pigboy Crabshaw), is one of the stars of this set displaying his Otis Rush and Albert King influences while unveiling a distinctive tone that he would carry for the rest of his career. Drummer Phil Wilson's inventive shadings, Bugsy Maugh's soulful vocals, Mark Naftalin's keyboard textures, and Gene Dinwiddie's and Dave Sanborne's sax riffs and solos, combine to create a brand new sound that is the Butterfield Blues Band. Not to be outdone, Butterfield known for his super charged, explosive harp work moves to playing unamplified in the studio for the first time, revealing nuances not heard before in his always elegant style.
Notable is the band's adventurous take on the opener - Marvin Gaye's "One More Heartache". Dig the hand clapping and bass intro, Butter's pleading vocal, emotive harp playing, and Bishop's economical stop time solo that make this cut nothing short of breath taking.
The second disc, In My Own Dream, goes further; and may be the studio high water mark for the Butterfield big band. A true band effort, all members make strong contributions with Butterfield playing more of a cooperative role.
Bugsy Maugh puts forth 3 songs with Phil Wilson handling the vocals on one of them, "Get Yourself Together". Bishop is the focus of an album highlight, "Drunk Again", debuting his Tulsa farm boy persona before kicking the song into a high powered finale with a guitar solo that's pure B.B. King turned up to 11. And Butterfield weighs in with fine harp throughout, (including an outstanding solo flight on "Get Yourself Together" that more than matches the urgency of Wilson's vocal), a truly eerie take on Muddy Waters' "Just To Be With You", and marvelous opening and closing numbers powered by distinctive Sanborne alto solos. The opener "Last Hope's Gone" borders on Jazz and the introspective closer "In My Own Dream", (with Butterfield on guitar and Dinwiddie on mandolin!), is anything but pure Chicago Blues. However, with it's structure, pacing and warm ensemble singing it recalls formative field songs. Play "In My Own Dream "a few times and then try not to sing along!
I can't review this compilation without, in good conscience, making mention of Peter Doggett's pointless, misguided liner notes which do nothing but serve as a great disservice to the exceptional music contained on the 2 discs. I'll leave it at that.
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Fantastic Reissue
Submitted on: 2006-04-08 |
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| I will never regret buying this CD. The quality is incredible. I don't know how it compares to the domestic versions of the two CD's, but I am thrilled with its clarity, its quality, its packaging. My only regret is not enjoying Paul Butterfield's music in the 60's when I was a teen, a time when I purchased and listened to the trendy things that I believed--and some critics also believed--were the "cutting edge." I don't profess to be some sort of authority on the blues, but I know what I like, and I love this CD. |
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Hope this lives up to its promise
Submitted on: 2005-06-14 |
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| The first set in this series (the first two Butterfield albums) were fantastic recordings, cleaned up, high fidelity versions far superior to earlier CD releases of those albums. You could clearly hear all instruments, particularly the keyboards and fine separation of Elvin Bishop's and Mike Bloomfield's guitars. This second two/fer holds much promise. Although lesser known than the first incarnation of the Butterfield band, this group, along with Bloomfield's Electric Flag and Al Kooper's BS&T, were watershed albums in the "horns & blues rock" movement (an event which is not fully appreciated 40 odd years later). If the quality of this recording matches volume 1 in this set, by all means sell your previous copies of the CDs and purchase it. Mine is on order and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a delightful aural experience! |
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