The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Original Lost Elektra Sessions (Expanded)
Date: 6/18/2022
Format: 3 x LP
Label: Run Out Groove
Quantity: 5000
Release type: 'RSD First'
Paul Butterfield met aspiring blues guitarist Elvin Bishop in the early 1960s and with bassist Jerome Arnold and drummer Sam Lay (both from Howlin Wolf’s touring band), the new group secured a highly successful club engagement at Big John’s Folk Club in Chicago, bringing them to the attention of producer Paul A. Rothchild. During their engagement, Butterfield met and occasionally sat in with guitarist Mike Bloomfield. Rothchild was impressed with the chemistry between the two and having persuaded Paul to bring Bloomfield into the band, eventually signed them to Elektra Records in 1964. This Deluxe 3LP expanded edition of The Paul Butterfield Band’s lost sessions from the 1964-1966 era features the classic line-up working through blues classics. It is the first time this killer collection is available on vinyl and is expanded to include unreleased demo and alternate tracks recently found in the Warner Vaults.
- Good Morning Little School Girl
- Just To Be With You
- Help Me
- Hate To See You Go
- Poor Boy
- Nut Popper #1
- Everything‘s Gonna Be Alright
- Lovin‘ Cup
- Rock Me
- It Hurts Me Too
- Our Love Is Drifting
- Take Me Back
- Mellow Down Easy
- Ain‘t No Need To Go No Further
- Love Her With A Feeling
- Piney Brown Blues
- Spoonful
- That‘s Allright
- Going Down Slow
- Mellow Down Easy (Unedited 2021 Remix)
- Ain't No Need To Go No Further (Alternate Version)
- Keep On Loving' Me Baby (Unreleased Demo)
- Off The Wall (Alternate Instrumental Version)
- Blues With A Feeling (Alternate Version)
- Memory Pain (Unreleased Demo)
- Born In Chicago (Alternate Version)
- Nut Popper #1 (Alternate Version/First Take)
- One More Mile (Alternate Version)
- Love Her With A Feeling (Full Length Version)
- Mystery Train (Alternate Version)
- Blues For Ruth (Unreleased Instrumental Jam)
- Love Song (Unreleased Instrumental)
- Danger Zone (Unreleased Demo)
