Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Born in Chicago
2. Lovin' Cup
3. One More Mile
4. Off the Wall
5. Come on In
6. Nut Popper #1
7. Ain't No Need To Go No Further / It's Too Late Brother
8. Born in Chicago
9. Shake Your Money Maker
10. Blues With a Feeling
11. Thank You Mr. Poobah
12. Our Love Is Driftin'
13. Mystery Train
14. Last Night
15. Walkin' Blues
16. I Got a Mind to Give up Living
17. Work Song
18. All These Blues
19. East West
DISC 2:
1. One More Heartache
2. Double Trouble
3. Last Hope's Gone
4. Mornin' Blues
5. Just to Be With You
6. Get Yourself Together
7. In My Own Dream
8. Love March
9. Walkin' by Myself
10. Love Disease
11. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
12. Driftin' & Driftin'
13. Blind Leading the Blind
14. Song For Lee
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Al Kooper, David Sanborn, Elvin Bishop, Merry Clayton, Mike Bloomfield | | Producer: | Bruce Harris | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Paul Butterfield (vocals, harp, flute, harmonica, piano); Gene Dinwiddie (vocals, flute, tenor saxophone); Bugsy Maugh (vocals, bass); Phillip Wilson (vocals, drums, percussion); Mike Bloomfield (guitar, slide guitar, piano, Hammond organ); Elvin Bishop, Buzz Feiten (guitar, French horn); Ralph Wash (guitar, background vocals); David Sanborn (soprano, alto & baritone saxophones); Trevor Lawrence (baritone saxophone); Steve Madaio, Keith Johnson (trumpet); Mark Naftalin (piano, keyboards, organ); Ted Harris (piano, keyboards); Al Kooper (organ); Rod Hicks (bass, background vocals); Jerome Arnold (bass); Billy Davenport (drums, percussion); Dennis Whitted, Sam Lay (drums); Bobby Hall (congas, bongos); Big Black (congas); John Court, Clydie King, Merry Clayton, Venetta Fields, Oma Drake (background vocals).
Includes liner notes by Tom Ellis III.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Everyone should own the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's first two albums, groundbreaking works that are among the most important and influential of the '60s. This two-disc distillation of the band's entire eight-year oeuvre is nonetheless a terrific overview, with a generous selection of tracks from those first two seminal efforts, plus all the crucial stuff from the band's inconsistent-but-still-worthy later LPs, along with a couple of early rarities making their CD debut.
Disc One is by the original band, a musical powerhouse that began as the toughest blues band in the world and eventually evolved into a free-form psychedelic jam outfit. Disc Two collects the best stuff from Butterfield's late '60s horn band albums; this incarnation was the obvious model for both Blood Sweat & Tears and Chicago, but Butterfield's ensemble was far grittier and more musically adventurous.
Editorial Reviews
...eloquently attests to the PBBB's formidable mastery of da blues, as well as its ability to stretch the genre's ostensible limitations to the snapping point... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (02/13/1998)
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