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[jazzboCR]

i-Pod listening in the garden this PM.

Catching what must be close to the last of the year's warm rays...

Second album of Jazzy Blues from 1966.

Butterfield blows a mean harp (I'm a real Bluesman, me !!), and sings a collection of fine songs that played a part in igniting the '60s Blues revival that dragged white audiences in, which may or not have been a good thing, depending on your standpoint...


AllMusic 5/5 stars.

I hear what you're saying--too often extending an audience base means diluting the music but let's don't be all anal-retentive about it (you definitely are not...I'm just saying). The royalty picture had been somewhat straightened out by this time (battles for years more, led by Willie Dixon but at least a start had been made) and a lot of folks commenced here then found the Original Stuff. Blues-rock that peculiar hybrid started about this time but Black folks had already started to turn their backs on what many thought of as "fuddy-duddy" music and this somewhat revitalized a 30-year-old music form that may have lost its way (tired themes, the same old, same old chords, few women in it getting respect, etc). Not starting a sh!t-storm here but from the perspective of the 21st century, overall a good thing. Looking for other points-of-view here in the usual civil MD way. Some tunes? How about the whole thing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwMqBvBLJio