RE: [Harp-L] Paul Butterfield´s "Slow down"

[robert mcgraw <harpbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow...yep, this is the real deal.WVa Bob
 > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:06:00 -0800
> From: martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Harp-L] Paul Butterfield´s "Slow down"
> 
> This has
> been highlighted a couple of times before, but I make no apologies: if you like
> good stuff this is the stuff you like. (Sound is kinda lousy, though.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4GNci5koi8
>   Butterfield is really in his prime here, and
> the material he recorded around this time, as well as those rather clunky
> PBBB albums from the 60´s, disintegrates in a thin cloud of smoke in comparison. That assured, laid-back stringency
> in the way he sets things up in the intro: a few tonic octaves delicately
> placed, then a simple riff – the force of that tone! – long pause, and back
> to some octaving again. Takes you to school. Nothing really hard to play – when someone else has played it for you. 
> 
>   And even if I don´t care that much for the
> unison soloing at the end (was that a 70´s thing?), this is something I´d
> really like on a record.
>  Do you people
> with knowledge of PB know what became of this/these session/s? It looks like studio
> surroundings and there are some really expensive guys involved, Levon H, The
> Doctor and Sanborn; few people would mind them crowding a session. 
>   The YT poster hints at an album with Butter
> and Garth H that was canned: was this also an aborted project?
>  
> Cheers,
> Martin