The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (album)

Occupation

• Paul Butterfield (vocals, harmonica );
• Sam Lay ( vocals, drums );
• Elvin Bishop ( guitar);
• Mike Bloomfield ( slide guitar );
• Jerome Arnold ( bass);
• Mark Naftalin (organ).

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band is the first album of the (Paul ) Butterfield Blues Band.

General

The folk -based Elektra label took Butterfield apparently under contract to the folk blues boom in the mid -1960s to benefit. The Butterfield Blues Band is also one of the first white- black blues bands in the U.S.. Sam Lay and Jerome Arnold came from Howlin ' Wolf's band and after the first recording of the album was discarded, Mark Naftalin joined the band and the album was recorded again. In the charts, the album was not particularly successful, but remained significantly the impact that the band had for example, Electric Flag, the band that Mike Bloomfield founded after he left Paul Butterfield's band.

Title list

Critics votes

• The Rolling Stone Magazine took it on its list of the 500 best albums of all time. (# 476)
• He sang and played the blues like a natural. ( He sang and played the blues like a black man. ) Q Magazine 3 of 5 stars
• Calling this album influential is an understatement akin to calling the Grand Canyon a rut. (To name this album influential is an understatement similar to the Grand Canyon a rut. ) CD Universe Review
• Two records really laid the ground work for the decade 's blues revival - the self-titled releases by John Mayall 's Bluesbreakers out of London and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band out of Chicago. (Two albums laid the foundations for Blue Revival of the decade, named after themselves albums " John Mayall 's Bluesbreakers " in London and "The Butterfield Blues Band " in Chicago. ) Amazon Editorial Review
• Equally ... are all moving pieces Performed with a raw adoration for blues music. ( .. all equally touching pieces and presented with a raw admiration for the blues. ) Review at Allmusic by Mike Degagne

Others

• Seven of the songs were on The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - An Anthology: The Elektra Years published (1997) again.
• On the cover photo Mark Naftalin missing.
• Published in 1995, Rhino Records a CD with 19 tracks, which has included the band for Elektra Records. Some of them were intended for the debut album.
• 1998 "Born in Chicago" was used in the soundtrack of the film Blues Brothers 2000.