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