New Walkin' Blues - Paul Butterfield's Better Days | The Midnight Special
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- Опубліковано 20 лют 2024
- September 28, 1973
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Paul Butterfield, one of the best bluesmen ever.
Criminally underrated
Great posting. Paul Butterfield one of the greatest band leaders of all time and great assembler of top rate musicians.
When I was a kid, I’d watch The Midnight Special as an act of rebellion against my bedtime. Now I watch it to fill my soul!
Yes you do. And I like this story. 😁👍
😄 Ha! Sure hope you didn’t get “grounded” for it, even if you did it was totally worth it, eh? We had to “pick our battles” with our parents.
I’m sounding like an old fogey parent/grand parent here, using reverse psychology, because I am! 😆 😜
As a young teenager in the late 60's, the first time I heard this band I was hooked. They pretty much never got played on the radio...
I could listen to this foot stomping blues all day.
Excellent upload
I have the two Better Days albums from the early seventies ! Both are excellent !!
Great performance showcasing their “swampy” blues sound - Pauls fantastic vocal and harp playing skills. Did some digging and realized this is his “Better Days” band, and that Paul was trained as a classical flautist.
Tulsan Elvin Richard Bishop, “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” songwriter-slide guitarist got his start with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band way back at the beginning in 1965. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. It’s sad that Paul Butterfield succumbed to addiction brought on by his health struggles with peritonitis, and died at age 44 in 1987.
Thankful we get to enjoy these gigs…forever…❤…
Saw the Elvin Bishop Trio live in 2023. My man still has the licks on guitar.
@@Zoetropeification
Wow, so lucky, that’s great to hear he’s still cookin’! Don’t believe I’ve seen him but there’s a certain time period way back when, around 18-19yrs young I’d go to many shows at the Cains Ballroom in Tulsa, OK like Little Feat, Jerry Jeff Walker etc…hazy days of youth 😉, and didn’t keep the ticket stubs.
I love that song “Don’t say no to me” on East-West - Elvin Bishop’s hung-dog vocal is so cool. Amazing band and PB is awesome on this live track as usual.
I’ve never seen footage of the original Better Days before, and, not surprisingly, they’re killing it here-fantastic! I bought their albums when they were first released and still play them regularly. Amos Garrett has been a hero of mine for fifty-plus years. A thousand thanks for posting this!
THey put out a fantastic live album, that for some reason was only released in Japan. Seriously underrated band.
@@markstodola3739 There are two live albums that sometimes show up on Amazon, one from a set at Winterland and the other from the Record Plant. Both are terrific. BTW, are you a resident of Little Rock? I live in Conway.
@@MacHeath699 No but I've been to Little Rock and definitely got a few comments. Ironically the former Mayor looks just like one of my cousins.
@@markstodola3739 Yeah, I wondered if you might in fact be the former mayor, whom I've met a couple of times. He's a good guy!
Excellent! Great talent!
Great blues tune for a rainy Wednesday morning! These guys were awesome!😎
When music had meaning and purpose!! Solid upload!
Absolutely. They don't make songs like disco duck or afternoon delight etc... anymore😂😂😂
@@craigplatel813Hahaha! Cool! 😂
Great Midnight Special, I remember seeing this performance and I was a big fan of Paul Butterfield’s Blues Band💯%
My favorite blues harp musician
some of the best concerts I went to . Big bands great soloists and the great Paul Butterfield . Guess this was post Mike Bloomfield . Amos Garret guitar ?
1:24 Amos Garrett, 3:21 GEOFF MULDAUR, 2:31 Christopher Parker
Amos guitar tone on his solo is absolutely perfect.
and Billy Rich on bass and Ronnie Barron on organ
Thanks for naming the musicians here, I have a hard time keeping up with them as they changed players so much! Just read this is his “Better Days” band, after digging a little deeper into his catalog. I’ve got “Paul Butterfield Blues Band” on the brain.
@@KittyGrizGriz that's a good thing, my favorite album and lineup was his first with Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop, the Better Days lineup is my second favorite, wasnt a big fan of his horn groups though they were all great players.
@@recordguy4321 Yes! “Driftin’ Blues” at ‘67 Monterey Pop is a favorite vid of mine on YT. Such a calm and relaxing vibe listening and looking at the audience members faces. Of course I’m gonna love Tulsas Elvin Bishop (where I grew up), he’s a great slidee player.
Bet you’re gonna tell me you were at Monterrey Pop too, I’ll be very very jealous if you do ha! 😉
I'm sorry I waited until I got home from work to watch this. Should have had a little Butter first thing this morning. First rate blues!
Had no idea that was Pauls “nickname”, that’s so cool! Man he was a great bluesman
Butter lived and epitomized the blues, my favorite harmonica player ever.
@@KittyGrizGriz The first two Paul Butterfield Blues Band albums are five star records that belong in everyone's collection, check out Born In Chicago.
@@brotzmannsax Thank you for the tip! The band played at ‘67 Monterey Pop Festival, with Elvin Bishop on guitar playing “Driftin’ Blues”, love that song it’s so relaxing. Wish I could time travel back to experience it and ‘69 Woodstock. Just made a post a little while ago about this performance, learned some things by digging deeper. Elvin Bishop is a huge favorite of mine, he’s from Tulsa, OK where I grew up.
@@KittyGrizGrizYou know your stuff, those 2 songs from Woodstock are fantastic. Hope to see you in the chat again on Friday nights Kitty.
yeah! amazing stuff. ⚡️💙✨
Blues !!!!
More please!
Alright !
Woah !!
Paul looks healthy.
He was at that time. He went downhill after this as his popularity declined with the coming of disco and such. Wound up nearly broke and in poor health. The hard drugs didn't help either. So sad.
Butter Legend
☮
I'm a decent harp player - I watch Butter and I want toss all my harps in the trash.
I know how you feel….and I’m not even decent. !!
Oh, come on now.... "New Walkin' Blues" to get us over the hump. 💙🩵
Happy Wednesday... thank you for sharing! 💖