The Butterfield Blues Band - East-West
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Artist: The Butterfield Blues BandBrand: BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Walkin' Blues
- Get Out of My Life, Woman
- I Got a Mind to Give up Living
- All These Blues
- Work Song
- Mary, Mary
- Two Trains Running
- Never Say No
- East West
Music reviews of East-West
Music Review: Classic
Rating: 5 Stars
There were lots of takes on the blues in the late 1960s: the improvosation of Cream, the acid blues of Hendrix, the elegent jazz of Colwell-Winfield's Cold Wind Blues.
East-West is in the top of the top leauge. Paul Butterfield had an amazing band, featuring Michael Bloomfield, arugably the best pure blues axeman of the era.
What Butterfield did on this album was to take numerous styles and run a Chicago Blues thread through them. There is the jazz of Cannonball Adderly's "Work Song," the pure sound of "I've Got A Mind,"
and the raga of the title track.
The band even manages to take teen fare--the Monkees' "Mary Mary," and give the puppy love sentiment of "I can't live without ya" a darkly sexual threat; all thanks to the grawling guitars, churning harmonica and the singers leering vocals. The transformation is astounding, showing the ture raw power of the blues.'
The recording is stuck in 1967--it still has that "twang" that disappeared from records around 1969--but here, that is actually an asset. It contributes a lot to the back alley feel even the best Chicago Blues had, and the contrast betweent this and the ellegance of the actual music is extreamly powerful.
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Description of East-West
1966's East-West, the second album from the Butterfield Blues Band -- and their last with lead guitarist Mike Bloomfield -- found the group branching out from the electric blues and adding elements of modern jazz and the music of India, most notably on the landmark title track, which paved the way for much of the musical experimentation of the late '60s.If the Butterfield Blues Band's groundbreaking debut earned the respect of the group's elder influences, this one won over (and guided) the blues boys' psychedelic peers. Highlighted by the 13-minute-plus title track (an Eastern-influenced jam cowritten by guitarist Mike Bloomfield), East-West stretches the boundaries of the blues. It would prod many lesser groups to explore, with generally dreary results, interminable free-flight explorations. But while East-West and a cover of jazzman Cannonball Adderly's "Work Song" ventured in new directions, Paul Butterfield and company remained rooted in solid Chicago blues. East West presents the best of both worlds. --Steve Stolder
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