The Paul Butterfield Blues Band The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

• 1 Born In Chicago 03:09
• 2 Shake Your Money-Maker 02:29
• 3 Blues With A Feeling 04:24
• 4 Thank You Mr. Poobah 04:08
• 5 I Got My Mojo Working 03:35
• 6 Mellow Down Easy 02:51
• 7 Screamin' 04:37
• 8 Our Love Is Drifting 03:34
• 9 Mystery Train 02:36
• 10 Last Night 04:19
• 11 Look Over Yonders Wall 02:27
• Total Runtime 38:09

Info for The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

The '60s Blues Revival begins here. Calling this album influential is an understatement akin to calling the Grand Canyon a rut; suffice to say that an entire generation of musicians (mostly young and white) heard this and had their lives changed forever. In fact, for at least a year after the album's release in 1965, it was impossible to walk down the hall of any college dorm in America without hearing one of the songs here echoing from somebody's room.

Heard today, the thing still packs a wallop. Butterfield's harmonica and vocals are utterly idiomatic, without a hint of minstrelsy. Michael Bloomfield's lead guitar is stinging and eloquent, and the rhythm section, on loan from Howling Wolf, swings like mad. The only fly in the ointment is the fairly primitive production, which often makes Mark Naftalin's keyboards sound like a horde of angry bees, but that's a small criticism in the face of blues playing as passionate and accomplished as this. A genuine classic.

Paul Butterfield, lead vocals (all but track 5), harmonica
Mike Bloomfield, guitars
Elvin Bishop, guitars
Mark Naftalin, organ (on tracks 3, 4, 7-10)
Jerome Arnold, bass
Sam Lay, drums, lead vocals (on track 5)

Recorded September 1965
Produced by Paul Rothchild with Mark Abramson

Digitally remastered

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