The Butterfield Blues Band-East-West-Remastered-CD-FLAC-1987-THEVOiD INT

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 Info   
     Artist  | The Butterfield Blues Band
     Title   | East-West
     Genre   | Blues                                Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 44:51
     Label   | Elektra Entertainment                Store   | 1987
     Catalog | 7315-2                               Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 808 kbps                             Size    | 277.37 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Walkin' Blues                                               3:19
     02. Get Out Of My Life, Woman                                   3:15
     03. I Got A Mind To Give Up Living                              4:59
     04. All These Blues                                             2:23
     05. Work Song                                                   7:56
     06. Mary, Mary                                                  2:52
     07. Two Trains Running                                          3:55
     08. Never Say No                                                2:59
     09. East-West                                                  13:13
 Notes  
     Paul Butterfield was the first white harmonica player to develop a
     style original and powerful enough to place him in the pantheon of
     true blues greats. It's impossible to overestimate the importance of
     the doors Butterfield opened: before he came to prominence, white
     American musicians treated the blues with cautious respect, afraid
     of coming off as inauthentic. Not only did Butterfield clear the way
     for white musicians to build upon blues tradition (instead of merely
     replicating it), but his storming sound was a major catalyst in
     bringing electric Chicago blues to white audiences who'd previously
     considered acoustic Delta blues the only really genuine article.
     The raw immediacy and tight instrumental attack of The Butterfield
     Blues Band's self-titled debut album were startling and impressive
     in 1965, but the following year, the group significantly upped the
     ante with its second LP, East-West. The debut showed that
     Butterfield and his bandmates could cut tough, authentic blues (not
     a given for an integrated band during the era in which fans were
     still debating if a white boy could play the blues) with the energy
     of rock & roll, but East-West was a far more ambitious set, with the
     band showing an effective command of jazz, Indian raga, and garagey
     proto-psychedelia as well as razor-sharp electric blues.
     Butterfield was the frontman, and his harp work was fierce and
     potent, but the core of the band was the dueling guitar work of Mike
     Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop, especially Bloomfield's ferocious,
     acrobatic solos, while Mark Naftalin's keyboards added welcome
     washes of melodic color, and the rhythm section of bassist Jerome
     Arnold and drummer Billy Davenport were capable of both the
     rock-solid support of veteran blues players and the more flexible
     and artful pulse of a jazz combo, rising and relaxing with the
     dynamics of a performance.
     The Butterfield Blues Band sounded muscular and exciting on classic
     blues workouts like "Walkin' Blues," "Two Trains Running," and "I
     Got a Mind to Give Up Living," but the highlights came when the band
     pushed into new territory, such as the taut New Orleans proto-funk
     of "Get Out of My Life, Woman," the buzzy and mildly trippy "Mary,
     Mary," and especially two lengthy instrumental workouts, the
     free-flowing jazz of Nat Adderley's "Work Song" and the title track,
     a fiery mix of blues, psychedelia, Indian musical patterns, and
     several other stops in between, with Butterfield, Bloomfield, and
     Bishop blowing for all their worth.
     East-West would prove to be a pivotal album in the new blues-rock
     movement, and it was the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's greatest
     achievement; Bloomfield would be gone by the time they cut their
     next LP to form the Electric Flag, and as good as Bishop was, losing
     the thrust and parry between the two guitarists was a major blow.
     But East-West captures a great group in high flight as the
     bandmembers join together in something even more remarkable than
     their estimable skills as individuals would suggest, and its
     importance as a nexus point between rock, blues, jazz, and world
     music cannot be overestimated.
     Original 1966 release remastered in 1987 by Bruce Botnick and Paul
     A. Rothchild.

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