The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Original Lost Elektra Sessions (2009)

Tracklist

01. Good Morning Little School Girl
02. Just to Be with You
03. Help Me
04. Hate to See You Go
05. Poor Boy
06. Nut Popper #1
07. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
08. Lovin' Cup
09. Rock Me
10. It Hurts Me Too
11. Our Love Is Drifting
12. Take Me Back Baby
13. Mellow Down Easy
14. Ain't No Need to Go No Further
15. Love Her with a Feeling
16. Piney Brown Blues
17. Spoonful
18. That's All Right
19. Goin' Down Slow


All but one of these 19 tracks were recorded in December, 1964, as Paul Butterfield Blues Band's projected first LP; the results were scrapped and replaced by their official self-titled debut, cut a few months later. With both Michael Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop already in tow, these sessions rank among the earliest blues-rock ever laid down. Extremely similar in feel to the first album, it's perhaps a bit rawer in production and performance, but not appreciably worse or different than what ended up on the actual debut LP. Dedicated primarily to electric Chicago blues standards, Butterfield fans will find this well worth acquiring, as most of the selections were never officially recorded by the first lineup (although different renditions of five tracks showed up on the first album and the What's Shakin' compilation).

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