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Following the disbanding of the final Butterfield Blues Band lineup in the early 70s, Paul Butterfield relocated to the Catskill Mountains around Bearsville and Woodstock, NY. He began hanging out with members of the Band, Van Morrison, Jesse Winchester, and an ever-growing roster of high profile musicians who had also relocated there in recent years.
Butterfield assembled a new band, which featured some of the cream of that crop of veteran musicians. The new group, christened Better Days, had an extraordinary frontline consisting of Butterfield on harp and vocals, former Jim Kweskin Jug Band founding member Geoff Muldaur on keyboards, guitar, and vocals, Ronnie Barron on piano and vocals, as well as legendary studio vet, Amos Garrett, on lead guitar. The rhythm section boasted former Buddy Miles Express and Taj Mahal bassist Billy Rich and former Holy Moses drummer, Christopher Parker, who would eventually work with a long list of legends including Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and Steely Dan.
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 and is one of the great lost albums of the '70s.
Tracklist:
01. New Walkin' Blues
02. Please Send Me Someone To Love
03. Broke My Baby's Heart
04. Done A Lot Of Wrong Things
05. Baby Please Don't Go
06. Buried Alive In The Blues
07. Rule The Road
08. Nobody's Fault But Mine
09. Highway 28
10. New Walkin' Blues (Single Version)
11. Louise
12. Keep Lovin' Me Baby
Better Days Personnel:
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)
Media Info:
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: joint stereo
Samplerate: 44100
Encoder: LAME 3.98
MPEG-1 layer 3
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