It All Comes Back

Performer: Paul Butterfield
Artist: Maria Muldaur
Engineer: Nick Jameson
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Paul Butterfield's Better Days: Paul Butterfield (vocals, harmonica); Geoff Muldaur, Ronnie Barron, Christopher Parker, Billy Rich, Amos Garrett, Howard Johnson. Additional personnel: Maria Muldaur, Bobby Charles (vocals); Bobbye Hall (congas). Producers: Geoff Muldaur, Paul Butterfield, Nick Jameson. Digitially remastered by Bill Inglot and Ken Perry. Paul Butterfield's post-Blues Band outfit's second album is a bit more laid back than its predecessor, but it definitely has its moments, and as before the musicianship is stellar. The opening "Too Many Drivers," for example, is a churning Chicago blues, with Butterfield's horn impressions figuring as intensely as ever, that would have fit in perfectly with anything on his old band's debut. Geoff Muldaur turns in a haunting rendition of a delicate Rick Danko-penned R&B ballad "Small Town Talk," while "Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It," co-written and co-sung by Butterfield and R&B legend Bobby Charles, is a clavinet-driven funk workout whose instrumental sections work up a real Little Feat-style froth.

Singer/harmonica player Paul Butterfield and his band were from Chicago and well-schooled in that city's urban blues scene. Their first two albums of modernized Chicago blues not only created a critical stir, but led to large-scale interest in electric blues amongst the then-embryonic hippie generation. Members of the Butterfield band (most notably guitar whiz Mike Bloomfield) also played a key role in rock history by helping Bob Dylan along in his transition to electric music. Butterfield's 1966 album EAST-WEST was strikingly prescient in its incorporation of Eastern modalities. By the mid-'70s he was getting into the post-Woodstock rural vibe with his BETTER DAYS band. Though Butterfield's salad days were far behind him when he passed away in the late-'80s, he had changed both the blues and rock worlds irrevocably.

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