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Post by JamesP on Mar 16, 2017 16:11:58 GMT -5
rummaging through the record bin at walmart, I ran across a CD of the Paul Butterfield Band. Wow, don't know how I've missed this one.
Great Blues Harp
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Post by earleg on Mar 17, 2017 15:51:48 GMT -5
That LP is one of the really great classics. It helped introduce me to more modern electric blues in '66. By modern meaning in that era of blues. Downbeat magazine (thanks to my mom subscribing it for me) then was also great as an introduction around that time as they started covering some artists and advertising blues LPs.
I still play this album in the CD format. Have no idea what happened to my original vinyl LP. I got to see Paul Butterfield Band three times but none with Mike Bloomfield which I would have liked.
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Post by JamesP on Mar 17, 2017 20:24:51 GMT -5
Yeah George, a truly great album. It has me looking deeper int Paul Buttefield
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Post by earleg on Mar 18, 2017 11:28:13 GMT -5
That is a rather unusual find at a Walmart. Guess one never knows what might show up in their CD bin. Had I seen one would probably picked it up for a spare or give to a friend. Their bin here locally is generally all $5 CDs.
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Post by JamesP on Mar 18, 2017 11:34:52 GMT -5
That is a rather unusual find at a Walmart. Over the years, I've found a number of what I consider to be good music in the discount bins. Especially right after the Christmas season. My son is a manager at a Walmart store and he was telling me the electronics section of Walmart stores always have a reset shortly after Christmas. That means all of the CDs will be taken down and reset in a new location. I think some of the good cds that may not have the activity of others find their way into the discount baskets. But I guess it'a a local call.
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Post by whitefang on Mar 18, 2017 12:36:44 GMT -5
I got hip to Paul around '67. Over the next couple of years I saw him and his band on PBS and one time introduced a cute little redhead lloker who played killer slide. Turned out to be BONNIE RAITT' But lately in other forums, we've been talking about blues and old blues act and Butterfield would come up along with Bloonfield and Winter but..... NOBDY it seems, ever dredges up the names of groups and bands like THE BLUES PROJECT with Steve Katz, or The Siegal-Schwall Band. Yet back in the late '60's, when white electric blues was raging, these two bands were considered premier. And seeing Paul Butterfield at Detroit's Grande Ballroom WAS a treat! Whitefang
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Post by JamesP on Mar 18, 2017 12:44:01 GMT -5
Wow Fang. That video turned me on to a group I wasn't familiar with. Has that jump blues and a little rockabilly sound.
I'll check them out more now
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Post by whitefang on Mar 18, 2017 13:05:44 GMT -5
Glad to help, and happy hunting! Both Siegal and Schwall are in their 70's now and the rest of the original line-up is pretty much scattered these days, but the two do on occasion get a group together and show up somewhere. I do recall however, on PBS they did a gig with The Boston Pops and Arthur Fieldler in '68. Odd combo, but cool. Whitefang
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