Better Days (1973) ( )

Artist: Paul Butterfield
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Label: Wea/rhino
UPC: 00081227087722
Release Date: 3/26/1991
Buy.com Sku: 60101663
Item#: MX7DS3
Buy.com Sales Rank: 24321
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. New Walkin' Blues ~ Paul Butterfield's Better Days
2. Please Send Me Someone To Love ~ Paul Butterfield's Better Days
3. Broke My Baby's Heart ~ Paul Butterfield's Better Days
4. Done A Lot Of Wrong Things ~ Paul Butterfield's Better Days
5. Baby Please Don't Go ~ Paul Butterfield's Better Days
6. Buried Alive In the Blues ~ Paul Butterfield's Better Days
7. Rule The Road ~ Paul Butterfield's Better Days
8. Nobody's Fault But Mine ~ Paul Butterfield's Better Days
9. Highway 28 ~ Paul Butterfield's Better Days



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Paul Butterfield's Better Days: Paul Butterfield (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric piano, harp); Geoff Muldaur (vocals, slide guitar, piano, vibraphone); Amos Garrett (guitar, background vocals); Ronnie Barron (piano, organ, background vocals); Billy Rich (bass); Christopher Parker (drums).
Additional personnel: Dave Sanborn (alto saxophone); Gene Dinwiddie, J.D. Parran (tenor saxophone); Howard Johnson (baritone saxophone); Peter Ecklund, Stan Shafran (trumpet); Sam Burtis, Gary Brocks (trombone); Maria Muldaur, Dennis Whited, Bobby Charles (background vocals).
Recorded at Bearsville Sound Studio, Bearsville, New York.
"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.

Producer: Geoff Muldaur; P. Butterfield

Engineer: Nick Jameson

Musical Guests
Maria Muldaur
David Sanborn

 
Artist Overview
Singer/harmonica player Paul Butterfield and his band were from Chicago and well-schooled in that city's urban blues scene. Their first two albums of modernized Chicago blues not only created a critical stir, but led to large-scale interest in electric blues amongst the then-embryonic hippie generation. Members of the Butterfield band (most notably guitar whiz Mike Bloomfield) also played a key role in rock history by helping Bob Dylan along in his transition to electric music. Butterfield's 1966 album EAST-WEST was strikingly prescient in its incorporation of Eastern modalities. By the mid-'70s he was getting into the post-Woodstock rural vibe with his BETTER DAYS band. Though Butterfield's salad days were far behind him when he passed away in the late-'80s, he had changed both the blues and rock worlds irrevocably.

Artist Influences
Buddy Guy | Cannonball Adderley | Charles Brown | Elmore James | Howlin' Wolf | James Cotton (Blues) | Johnny Copeland | Junior Wells | Little Walter | Miles Davis | Muddy Waters | Robert Johnson (Mississippi) | Slim Harpo | Sonny Boy Williamson | T-Bone Walker

Artist Contemporaries
Canned Heat | Fleetwood Mac | John Hammond (Blues) | John Mayall | Koerner, Ray & Glover | Paul Geremia | Rising Sons (Blues) | Savoy Brown | The Animals | The Blues Project | The Pretty Things | The Rolling Stones | The Siegel-Schwall Band | The Yardbirds | Them (60's)

Artist Followers
Blues Traveler | Electric Flag | George Thorogood | J. Geils Band | James Montgomery | Little Mike & The Tornadoes | Robben Ford | Rod Piazza | Roomful Of Blues | The Blues Brothers | The Fabulous Thunderbirds | William Clarke


 
Compilation Appearances
Last Waltz (Live)
Vol. 4-Harmonica Classics
Woodstock Two (Remastered)
Blues Brothers 2000
The Last Waltz (Bonus Tracks)
Rough Guide To Chicago Blues
Come To The Mountain: old Time Music
Solos Sessions Encores

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 03/26/1991
Original Release Date : 1973
Catalog ID : 70877
Label : Rhino Records (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Runtime : 37m : 6s
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00081227087722

  
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