Re: [Harp-L] Paul ButterfieldÂs "Slow down"

[The Iceman <icemanle@xxxxxxx>]

<<there are some really expensive guys involved>>

today they are expensive. back then they were just musicians looking for gigs....



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From: MARK BURNESS <markwjburness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: robert mcgraw <harpbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>; martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thu, Mar 7, 2013 9:56 am
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Paul ButterfieldÂs "Slow down"


Martin wrote: "It looks like studio
> surroundings and there are some really expensive guys involved, Levon H, The
> Doctor and Sanborn"
 
Sanborn was a fixture in Butterfield's band starting in '67 & featuring on "The 
Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw".


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From: robert mcgraw <harpbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx> 
Cc: harp-l harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2013, 11:48
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Paul ButterfieldÂs "Slow down"

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 ButterfieldÂs "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 60Âs, 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 â the force of that tone! â long pause, and back
> to some octaving again. Takes you to school. Nothing really hard to play â 
when someone else has played it for you. 
> 
>  And even if I donÂt care that much for the
> unison soloing at the end (was that a 70Âs thing?), this is something IÂd
> 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