Re: [Harp-L] Fathers and Sons

[Zack <zack.pomerleau@xxxxxxxxx>]

   Although a good album, I don't think it was as incredible as people say
it was. In my humble opinion, Butterfield and Bloomfield just didn't mesh
with Muddy. I've had a hard time listening to the full album.

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Cliff Chard <komododad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Picked up my first copy of F & S when it first came out.  I was 16 yrs old.
> It changed my life.  I had patterned my playing, prior to that time after
> Will Scarlett of Hot Tuna (who I still hold in the highest regard.)  After
> F
> & S I worshiped Mr. Butterfield and lifted note for note, his solo on "Same
> Thing."  As the years have gone by I have heard, and stolen from, many
> different harp players but I have always had a copy of F & S in record,
> tape
> or Cd, and have listened to it at least once a month.  I am always
> astonished at Battlefield's inventiveness on that album and at how
> perfectly
> he integrated himself with the whole.  Many a lesson in that album for
> anyone who plays live concerning being a part of the band but not hogging
> the solo time, standing out but not dominating, etc.  I feel that album was
> the culmination and distillation of Chicago blues up to that moment.
>     By the way, in 1968 a Marine Band could be had for as little as $3.50.
> A Blues Harp ran about $7.00.  Of course, everything was cheaper, then.
> Gasoline was .25 to 35 cents a gallon, a gallon of milk, straight from the
> dairy, was less than a dollar, a loaf of bread was 35 cents, a prostitute
> and subsequent medical care ran...well, never mind.
>     Life was no better or easier then, though.  Nostalgia, and time has a
> way of dulling the pain.  Friends and relatives died unexpectedly, there
> were bad people around, parents went crazy and cooked their children,
> tornadoes and hurricanes changed landscapes, etc.  Only music stands up to
> its time and therefore can remain timeless.  Music created with earnestness
> and talent never dies.
>     Well, enough of my lecture.
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