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Paul Butterfield's Better Days - Better Days (1973) [Reissue 1991]
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 235 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 88 MB | Covers - 6 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: (Rhino R2 70877)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 235 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 88 MB | Covers - 6 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: (Rhino R2 70877)
"We're the only band around that's playing rooted American music," Better Days vocalist and former folkie Geoff Muldaur told an interviewer when this album was first released in 1973, and with perhaps just a handful of exceptions he was right. The band's mix of various styles of blues, from rural (Robert Johnson), to cosmopolitan (Percy Mayfield), along with hints of New Orleans R&B, boogie woogie, and early rock and country, was tremendously out of step with the pop trends of its time.Tracklist:
These days, of course, there are many bands doing more or less the same thing (although rarely as well), but the fact that these guys couldn't have cared less about appearing trendy is one of the reasons why Better Days sounds timeless. Another reason, of course, is world class musicianship; Muldaur, Paul Butterfield, and stupendously stylish guitarist Amos Garrett in particular come across as both relaxed and passionate. Despite their essentially formalistic approach to music making, they never sound academic or sterile. Better Days is one of the great lost albums of the '70s.
01. New Walkin' Blues
02. Please Send Me Someone to Love
03. Broke My Baby's Heart
04. Done a Lot of Wrong Things
05. Baby Please Don't Go
06. Buried Alive in the Blues
07. Rule the Road
08. Nobody Fault But Mine
09. Highway
Total time: 37:24
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Thanks to the priginal releaser
See also:
The Paul Butterfield Blues Ban...essions [Recorded 1964] (1995)
The Paul Butterfield Blues Ban...logy: The Elektra Years (1997)