Anthology: The Elektra Years. (Carousel Corner).Paul Butterfield Paul Butterfield (December 17, 1942 – May 4, 1987) was an American blues harmonica player and singer, and one of the earliest white exponents of the Chicago-originated electric blues style. Blues Band, Anthology: The Elektra Years (Elektra) The very first concert my brother and I attended at the original Fillmore Auditorium There have been at least four "Fillmores":
intr.v. cat·er·wauled, cat·er·waul·ing, cat·er·wauls 1. To cry or screech like a cat in heat. 2. To make a shrill, discordant sound. 3. To have a noisy argument. n. , free-fall jazz held us spellbound. But we were there for Butterfield and his tandem guitar line-up of Elvin Bishop Elvin Bishop (born October 21 1942, in Glendale, California) is an American blues and rock and roll musician and guitar player. Bishop grew up on an Iowa farm. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was ten. There, he attended Will Rogers High School. and Michael Bloomfield Michael Bloomfield may refer to:
tr.v. en·rap·tured, en·rap·tur·ing, en·rap·tures To fill with rapture or delight. en·rap at the edge of the cords as the Butterfield band tore through two sets of savage electric blues This article may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since June 2007. . We didn't know at the time, but Bloomfield's departure had turned Bishop loose, no longer having to find his space under the former's considerable skill and shadow. In a sense, we witnessed the rolling of the stone that presaged the resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw -- Bishop's nom de band. The two-disc Anthology chronicles the band's origins in Chicago in 1964 to its final horn-drenched 1971 incarnation. The first disc leans heavily on the band's Chicago years with the majority of the material coming from Elektra samplers and their first three albums. The second disc races through the last four albums, arguably a less fearsome output than the Bloomfield/Bishop band (Bishop left after In My Own Dream.) The Anthology is chock full of vintage Butterfield, "The Work Song", "Mystery Train", "Born in Chicago", "East/West" and the sublime "In My Own Dream" with a young David Sanborn's transcendent soprano sax solo. If I have any quibble QUIBBLE. A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety; a cavil. 2. No justly eminent member of the bar will resort to a quibble in his argument. with this kind of compilation, it is what it omits -- most of East/West and Crabshaw, for my money the original band's best work. I'm especially disappointed that Mugsy Baugh's "Drivin' Wheel" didn't pass final muster. The accompanying booklet is a succinct and sympathetic band history that focuses, and rightly so, on Butterfield, the nexus around which his various bands revolved. The liner note writer, Tom Ellis III, describes how the integrated band, a Southside Chicago first, broke the area's electric blues nationally with their overlooked performance at the Newport Folk Festival The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959. History The Newport Folk Festival was founded in 1959 by Theodore Bikel, Oscar Brand, Pete Seeger and George Wein, founder of the in 1965-overshadowed by Dylan's electric coming out with The Band. He also notes that having honed their chops in the Southside's brutally tough music scene, the sheer command of their material raised them head and hocks above the bands of the burgeoning San Francisco scene after they emigrated there in 1967. For those of you who haven't heard the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Anthology is an excellent embarkation point. A great many of the band's albums are still around on disc, notably East/West and Crabshaw. One can hope, however, that Elektra will see fit some day to issue the band's work in a definitive box set. |
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