The Butterfield Blues Band - East West (1966)[email protected][Rhino]{1337x} kawli
East-West is the second album by The Butterfield Blues Band, released in 1966 on Elektra Records. It was recorded at the famed Chess Studios in Chicago. It peaked at #65 on the Billboard chart. Like the band's record debut, this album features traditional blues covers and the guitar work of Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop. The album includes two extended jams at the instigation of Bloomfield following the group's successful appearance at The Fillmore in San Francisco alongside Jefferson Airplane. The title track "East-West" used elements of modal jazz as introduced by Miles Davis on his ground-breaking "Kind of Blue" album. Bloomfield had become enamored of work by John Coltrane in that area, especially his incorporation of ideas from Indian raga music. The title song was reportedly inspired by an all-night LSD trip that "East-West"'s primary songwriter Mike Bloomfield experienced in the fall of 1965, during which the late guitarist said he'd had a revelation into the workings of Indian music. The album liner notes observe that the song "East-West" was an exploration of music that moved modally, rather than through chord changes.'East-West' can be heard as part of what sparked the West Coast's rock revolution, in which such song structures with extended improvisatory passages became commonplace. The Butterfield Blues Band has been called one of the greatest bands of the rock era. With 'East-West', above any other extended piece of the mid-Sixties, a rock band finally achieved a version of the musical freedom that free jazz had found a few years earlier. ~ excerpt from wikipedia
Tracklist:
1. Walkin 'Blues
2. Get Out of My Life, Woman
3. I Got a Mind to Give up Living
4. All These Blues
5. Work Song
6. Mary, Mary
7. Two Trains Running
8. Never Say No
9. East-West
Personnel
* Paul Butterfield — vocals, harmonica
* Mike Bloomfield — electric guitar
* Elvin Bishop — electric guitar lead vocal on "Never Say No"
* Mark Naftalin — piano, organ
* Jerome Arnold — bass
* Billy Davenport — drums
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Media Info:
General
Complete name : Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East West
Format : MPEG Audio
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Album : East-West
Performer : THE BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND
Recorded date : 1966
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Comment : Original Album Series (2009) [Rhino]
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