Re: [Harp-L] The New Butterfield Thread

["Michael Peloquin" <peloquinharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Rick & Dana Siekmann" <dsiekmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> > Someone asked about Butter's rig.
>
> That was me...it sounds from the descriptions we've gotten that he had a 
> fairly simple setup.
Although it was implied elsewhere that folks get tired of Butterfield 
threads, I find them fascinating.  Probably because I'm new to the whole 
blues experience, but also because as I've been educating myself on the many 
different blues masters, Butterfield is the one that really jumps out at me. 
 So I guess mostly I'm just trying to figure out how he did what he did.
> On a related note, I recently picked up Fathers and Sons (Muddy and Paul) 
> and was astounded at >how much the music and feeling on that record just 
> pulls you in.  Of course, it didn't hurt that I> >had two or three beers in 
> me the first time I put it on, but even so, on subsequent hearings I find 
> >the same thing happening.  Maybe it's Butterfield, or maybe it's Muddy, 
> or maybe the genre is just >finally finding it's way into my soul...one can 
> only hope.

I am so much more into Butterfield as a sideman than I am into the PBBB. 
Better Days is cool and innovative, but I think PB brought so much to the 
tablle in sideman situations.

Fathers & Sons
Muddy in Woodstock (won the Grammy for best Blues Album)
Levon Helm & the RCO All Stars (my fave)
Maria Muldaur-Waitress in a Donut Shop

Butter up yer PUCKER y'all!

Michael Peloquin
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