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

[Mike Wilbur <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to you Rob never heard that ATW solo before.....that was an  amazzzzing amount of wind !

Mike Wilbur


On Mar 7, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Rob Paparozzi <chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey Martin,
> 
> 
> Thanx for postin' this and the person who posted it posted some other rare stuff worth checkin out!
> 
> Checkout Butter's amazing SOLO on this Live "He's Got all The Whiskey" in Sausalto...OMG! and Ronnie Barron's opening is the Gospel!
> Butter Studied Classical Flute and ran Track so it's no wonder he's got some phenomenal breathe control!
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B7iSQAXGZo
> 
> 
> I have been doing some gigs with Paul's son Gabe in Woodstock, NY so I will ask him about the 'Slow Down' sessions etc...
> 
> 
> Enjoy,
> Rob Paparozzi
> 
> On 3/7/2013 6:48 AM, robert mcgraw wrote:
>> 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
>>                         
> 
> -- 
> Best,
> Rob Paparozzi
> 
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