The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Goin' Down Slow video free download
*Please note the music stops at 4:40. The track runs to 6:02. At 5:25 studio chatter starts in. I did not cut the track, so there is a blank space between the music and the chatter.
These recordings are from 1964 and were to be on the first Paul Butterfield Band album. They were scrapped for some reason and their first album was recorded soon afterward. This is Butterfield's version of Jimmy Oden's, "Goin' Down Slow", from 'The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: The Original Lost Elektra Sessions" which was recorded in 1964 and was released in 1995. (The recordings were in a vault for the 30 years in between.) Enjoy!
Paul Butterfield Blues Band:
Paul Butterfield -- vocals, harmonica
Elvin Bishop -- guitar
Mike Bloomfield -- guitar & piano
Jerome Arnold -- bass
Sam Lay -- drums
* Mark Naftalin -- keyboards. Mark Naftalin had not joined the group yet when this album was recorded. I named him since he is so linked with the group.
Comments
9 years ago
Andy Thomas
To think Elektra rejected this as their first album. What were they thinking? I mean, what wound up as the first album, great though it is, isn't as good as this!10 years ago
Jack Kerouac
Mike shreds those keys wow! What a rare talent12 years ago
MyMoppet52
@screwmaster404 I tend to like raw & primitive so I enjoy this.(less produced, I guess I should say.) I saw him, (with his In My Own Dream lineup!), Steve Miller before becoming so commercial, Grand Funk on their release tour, album wasn't even out yet, & the original James Gang...they did Bolero...for free in an all day all night concert in a Cincy Park. It blocked traffic all day. Huge turnout. Much more than expected. I think Staple Singers & lots more there also. Best concert ever! Moppet12 years ago
screwmaster404
Paul was the real deal, born with the blues in his soul. Thanks Moppet, I never heard these sessions.Related Videos
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