Paul Butterfield's Better Days - Bearsville Anthology

Album: Bearsville Anthology
Size: 143,8 MB
Time: 62:26
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2000
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Art: Full

1. Highway 28 (3:12)
2. Buried Alive In The Blues (3:43)
3. New Walking Blues (4:52)
4. Baby Please Don't Go (3:33)
5. Too Many Drivers (3:21)
6. Win Or Lose (4:38)
7. Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It (3:44)
8. It All Comes Back (6:12)
9. Ain't That A Lot Of Love (4:05)
10. The Breadline (3:06)
11. Here I Go Again (3:52)
12. Bread & Butterfield (4:25)
13. Baby Blue (5:09)
14. Slow Down (4:38)
15. Done A Lot Of Wrong Things (3:51)

Paul Butterfield was a legend long before he ever set foot in Woodstock. Perhaps the first authentic white voice in the blues, his legendary '60s aggregations showed how the blues could progress long after it had ceased to be nourished from the black neighbourhoods. In Butterfield's hands, the blues could be heavy with rock 'n' roll attitude or fleet with jazz. His bands were loud, ballsy, and aware of tradition without being overawed by it. Butterfield was a musical eclectic. His roots were in jazz, blues, R&B, and rock 'n' roll, and he saw nothing wrong with combining them all. That eclecticism could sometimes be his undoing, but at his considerable best Paul Butterfield was a towering giant of American music.

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Various - Piano Blues & Boogie Woogie

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:27
Size: 159.0 MB
Styles: Piano blues, Boogie woogie
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[2:55] 1. Emmett Berry - Twelve O'clock Blues
[2:07] 2. Dr. John - Tipitina
[3:24] 3. Chuck E. Weiss - Down The Road A Piece
[3:43] 4. Big Joe Turner - Roll 'em Pete
[5:08] 5. ¡cubanismo! - Junco Partner
[3:51] 6. Ray Charles - Rockhouse (Parts 1 & 2)
[4:00] 7. Champion Jack Dupree - Goin' Down Slow
[2:36] 8. Mose Allison - Seventh Son
[2:26] 9. Booker T. & The M.G.'s - Booker's Notion
[2:12] 10. Bobby Short - Down In Mexico
[3:47] 11. Jerry Lee Lewis - Number One Lovin' Man
[2:55] 12. Charlie Norman - Metronome Boogie
[5:41] 13. James Booker - Goodnight Irene
[3:43] 14. Paul Butterfield's Better Days - - Buried Alive In The Blues
[3:12] 15. Junior Mance - I Believe To My Soul
[5:04] 16. Delaney & Bonnie - Miss Ann
[3:55] 17. The Kingbees - Life's Too Short (To Be With You)
[3:33] 18. Chas & Dave - I Wonder In Whose Arms
[2:38] 19. Pedro's Heavy Gentlemen - Love And Joy
[2:29] 20. Freddie King - Sweet Thing

Boogie-woogie is a musical genre that became popular during the late 1920s, but developed in African American communities in the 1870s. It was eventually extended from piano, to piano duo and trio, guitar, big band, country and western music, and gospel. While the blues traditionally expresses a variety of emotions, boogie-woogie is mainly associated with dancing.

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Paul Butterfield's Better Days - Better Days + It All Comes Back (2in1)

Year: 1973/1973/2012
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 79:56
Size: 186,8 MB
Styles: Blues, R&B
Scans: Full

1. New Walkin' Blues (4:53)
2. Please Send Me Someone To Love (5:11)
3. Broke My Baby's Heart (5:13)
4. Done A Lot Of Wrong Things (3:55)
5. Baby Please Don't Go (3:30)
6. Buried Alive In The Blues (3:46)
7. Rule The Road (4:16)
8. Nobody's Fault But Mine (3:36)
9. Highway (3:14)
10. Too Many Drivers (3:18)
11. It's Getting Harder To Survive (4:01)
12. If You Live (3:30)
13. Win Or Lose (4:38)
14. Small Town Talk (5:30)
15. Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It (3:44)
16. Poor Boy (4:19)
17. Louisiana Flood (3:40)
18. It All Comes Back (6:13)
19. Louise (Bonus Track) (3:19)

Better Days (1973): "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.

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. /Allmusic


It All Comes Back (1973): Paul Butterfield's post-Blues Band outfit's second album is a bit more laid back than its predecessor, but it definitely has its moments, and as before the musicianship is stellar. The opening "Too Many Drivers," for example, is a churning Chicago blues, with Butterfield's horn impressions figuring as intensely as ever, that would have fit in perfectly with anything on his old band's debut.

Geoff Muldaur turns in a haunting rendition of a delicate Rick Danko-penned R&B ballad "Small Town Talk," while "Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It," co-written and co-sung by Butterfield and R&B legend Bobby Charles, is a clavinet-driven funk workout whose instrumental sections work up a real Little Feat-style froth. /AllMusic

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