Butterfield Blues Band
Butterfield Blues Band
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 The Butterfield Blues Band 1967 USA Stereo Orig Brown Label VG VG  US $4.99
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 MONO PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND SLEF TITLED BLUES LP ON ELEKTRA EKL 294 US $9.99
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 PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND LP Elektra EKL 294 PROMO NM US $132.85
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 Butterfield Blues Band East West Japan LP OBI INSERT US $19.99
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 THE BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND Keep On Moving 1969 UK Vinyl LP FIRST PRESS EX EX US $7.88
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 BUTTERFIELD BLUES BANDEAST WESTVINYL US $20.43
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 DAKOTA STATION BLUES JAZZ 45 I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOULL EVER KNOW AL KOOPER US $4.95
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 GREATEST FOLKSINGERS OF THE SIXTIES 2 LP Set from Vanguard OCHS Dylan John HURT US $15.00
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 Excellent 1971 Rock LP HARVEY MANDEL Baby Batter JANUS RECORDS US $4.99
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 BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND 1ST ALBUM SUNDAZED LP US $18.98
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 Butterfield Blues Band Walkin’ Blues Japan ONLY 4 TRACK EP US $19.99
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 SOUNDS July 27 85 SST story BLASTERS TYGERS OF PAN TANG TV PERSONALITIES US $4.99
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 Woodstock Two US $19.99
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 The Butterfield Blues band The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw US $4.99
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 PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND S T LP ELEKTRA RARE 1965 ORIG MONO GUITAR PLAYER US $19.99
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 Butterfield Blues Band tan label LP Resurection of Pigboy US $14.99
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 BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND THE RESURRECTION OF PIGBOY CRABSHAW ORIG OZ PRESSING US $21.45
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 David Sanborn I Told U So 12 Single US $9.99
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 MONKEES More of The Monkees LP NEW SEALED REISSUE 180g SUNDAZED US $18.99
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 1974 MINTY PROMO BOB DYLAN THE BAND Planet Waves US $119.99
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 The BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smiling LP US $10.99
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 Worlds Greatest Jazz Band Extra Project 3 PR 5039QD ♫ US $7.00
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 Worlds Greatest Jazz Band Century Plaza World Jazz WJLP 5 1 US $7.00
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 THE HITS OF BOB CROSBYS BOBCATS LP 1951 52 BAND M eddie miller US $4.95
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 WOODSTOCK TWO Double Disc US $9.00
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 ELVIN BISHOP Let It Flow US 1st Pressing 1974 Blues Paul Butterfield Bluesband US $14.95
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 Lawson Haggart Greatest Jazz Band Whats New SS LP US $8.00
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 WOODSTOCK TWO JIMI HENDRIX JOAN BAEZ RECORD SET LP US $29.95
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 AMERICAN BLUES EXCHANGE Blueprints 2xLP 69 Blues Psych US $49.99
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 BRAD GOWANS NEW YORK NINE RCA 10 DIXIELAND JAZZ US $29.15
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 The Butterfield Blues Band Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin 1971 Rock LPVG US $8.95
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 The Butterfield Blues Band East West 1970s Rock LP VG US $14.95
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 Elvin Bishop Hog Heaven 1978 Vinyl LP NEW SEALED US $10.00
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 Ultimate Blues 1990 2x LP John Mayall Muddy Waters US $12.62
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 THE BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND SOMETIMES I JUST FEEL LIKE SMILIN LP 75013 US $19.97
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 Lovin Spoonful Alley Oop 7 RSD 2011 Black Friday New US $9.49
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 THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND ELEKTRA2 294 MONO US $39.99
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 2 LP Lot Butterfield Blues Band East West Dave Mason Old Crest On A New Wav US $13.99
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 PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND Golden Butter Best of1972 ELEKTRA 2xLP Gatefold VG US $9.99
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 PETER PAUL MARY ALBUM LP Excellent vinyl stereo green WB label US $6.99
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 Butterfield Blues Band Golden Butter US 2 LP EX VG US $8.40
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 Cotillion Woodstock Two Vinyl 1 LP Album SD 2 400 Side ONE TWO c 1971 US $9.99
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 PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND S T LP NEW SEALED 180 gram VINYL DEBUT SUNDAZED US $18.99
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 BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND In My Own Dream SEALED US LP US $9.94
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 PAUL BUTTERFIELD East West 180 GRAM 1ST ED Sealed LP US $89.99
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 Woodstock Promo Free Postage Jimi Hendrix CSNY Jefferson Neil Young Japan US $335.00
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 Catherines Horse LP Vinyl Import Crude Garage LP Limited Vinyl Reissue US $15.99
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 Paul Butterfield Golden Butter 73 PROMO 2 LP US $29.99
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 The Butterfield Blues Band Keep On Moving 1971 US $12.00
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Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Driftin' Blues (Monterey 1967)
History of the Blues
Ah, the Blues. We say we have the Blues when feeling down. But the "Blues" is also a genre of music, one that is difficult to define but is most characteristically defined as something with a specific chord progression - one that includes the twelve-bar and the 'blue note', one that is flattened or bent in relation to the pitch of the major scale.
Nobody knows for sure how the Blues got its name or how it originated but many theorize that it started with unaccompanied vocal music of poor black laborers between 1870 and 1900. Prior to this, many of Blues characteristics is said to be traced back to the music of Africa, most particularly in the way it uses a wavy, nasal intonation.
The progression of Blues from this early time then rolls into early spirituals or religious songs at camp meetings. Like Blues, spirituals were passionate songs that conveyed to listeners the same feeling of rootlessness and misery as the Blues. Spirituals, however, were less specifically concerning the performer and rather instead about the general loneliness of mankind. Despite these differences, the two forms are similar enough that they could not be easily separated — many spirituals would probably have been called Blues had that word been in wide use at the time.
Country music was not country in its time as it too was considered the 'blues'. Both types of music during the nineteenth century were also labeled 'race music' or 'hillbilly music'.
As the recording industry grew, country Blues performers like Bo Carter, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red and Blind Blake grew more popular. The first Blues recordings from the 1920s are now categorized as a traditional, rural country blues. Country blues performers often improvised, either without accompaniment or with only a banjo or guitar. Regional styles of country blues varied widely in the early 20th century. The (Mississippi) Delta blues was considered a rootsy sparse style of blues with passionate vocals accompanied by slide guitar. Robert Johnson was one artist who combined elements of urban and rural blues.
Boogie-Woogie was another important style of blues in the1930s and early 1940s. While the style is often associated with a solo piano, boogie-woogie was also used to accompany singers and, as a solo part, in bands and small combos.
In the 1950s, the Blues had a huge influence on mainstream American popular music. Music from Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry were catching people's attention. John Lee Hooker made Blues more personal and with his rough voice and single electric guitar, his music was newly characterized as Guitar Boogie. His song Boogie Chillen reached number one on the R&B charts in 1949.
In northern cities like Chicago and Detroit, during the later forties and early fifties, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Elmore James among others, played what was basically Mississippi Delta blues, backed by bass, drums, piano and occasionally harmonica. At about the same time, T-Bone Walker in Houston and B.B. King in Memphis were pioneering a style of guitar playing that combined jazz technique with the blues tonality and repertoire.
White audiences' became more interested in the blues during the 1960s with the Chicago-based Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the British Blues movement. Before long, Blues and rock began fusing and America was seeing Blues Rock performers such as Jimi Hendrix.
During the 1980s, the Blues also continued in both traditional and new forms. Today, there are more than 160 Blues societies throughout the United States, Canada and Europe whom are constantly keeping the perpetual Blues flame alive with their distribution of newsletters to keep their members of which there are more than 100,000 informed of all the latest information about blues artists and concerts.
While the Blues may have had its beginnings with one culture, it is now appreciated and enjoyed by many cultures, worldwide.
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Is Blues music dead?
In my opinion, it is. In the 50's and 60's there were such good bands like Govt Mule, Muddy Waters, Paul Butterfield, Gladys Knight, Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughan(80's), and I bet 90% of people uder 30 today have never even heard of any of these bands. Music nowadays has gone completely down the crapper with a few exceptions. What's your opinion?
Same could be said about the 50s and 60s- nobody then knew about Muddy Waters, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Rev. Gary Davis or Big Bill Broonzy. Blues has always existed in the clubs, with a few festivals to boot, and has a static core of fans: as us old guys die off, young 'uns pick up on it.
I hate to nitpick but Gladys Knight is a soul singer, Government Mule was formed in the 1990s by replacement members of the Allman Brothers and Paul Butterfield is better known for the stars the group spawned, like Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop and David Sanborn.
This is a very human thing. Everyone's generation had better music. Just ask my mother, who came of age in the late 1930s.
