Was stunned to hear Levon Helms's voice suddenly, can't miss that sound. Was also surprised to see David Sanborn of smooth jazz fame rockin' out. Great old Larry Williams song, maybe my favorite John Lennon vocal.
@@ronrice1931 yep starting with the 1967 album the resurrection of pig-boy crabshaw and the next three subsequent releases of the Butterfield Blues Band He popped up in his better days years with Paul again for jam.
I remember reading once someone saying something about players who have "the cry". Anyone in any of Butter's bands had it in spades -- just listen to him & Sanborn trading at the end and you get it. that's why al his bands were so great.
Actually I have to disagree in a Small way. Butter was great even when he played with inferior bands which I won't mention. Even in this video when he was with really good musicans he still managed to outshine all of them. Pity in the case of the sax player who laid back a little to let Butter shine.
@@ron2shoes980 No pity needed! If you check out the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at Woodstock, the live footage, there is a young 19 year old David Sanborn on Sax......his first band and break in the music business. David Sanborn shares in his interview for Butterfield's bio movie that playing in that band, the dynamics of it led by Butterfield's harp, was like no other band he played in before or since. Sure he was maybe laying back a bit but they were also trading licks at the end. Respect!
Great discovery! Had no idea Butterfield did this, always one of my favorites since I heard Larry Williams ( the writer and original performer of this track) do this in the late 1950's. The Beatles also have a good version, but this is totally 'worthy' as well.
This is very good but I feel a superior version to the Beatles version is by Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers especially the guitar solo. Comparing this and Bennett's they are both just as good - just different.
the harmonica player that made me to investigate and to develop my vibrato on harp. and also to check out on ebay to buy me a Shure 545 "pistol grip" microphone. My world was never the same since that day ! Thanks a lot dear Paul !
remember like they called him the Jimi Hendrix of harmonica. he played that D harp upside downwhich along with his intensity also gave him that really really hard biting heavy sound....many people forget that important thing when they tried to imitate the best they can Butters
Few recall David Sanborn started with the Butterfield band; he once said he thought his best saxophone solo was the eerie modal one on "In My Own Dream"- in which Paul sang and played no harp at all. Guitar perhaps piano? I still believe it to be one of his best songs, despite his sort of ball-and-chain relationship with the blues. "the Greatest" either must plow new creative swaths through the established terrain, like Little Walter and Sonny Boy II, or demonstrate mastery that stuns, then demands the establishment rise to the challenge. Paul was never quite in either realm, but as an unapologetic white kid dedicated to a spurned musical genre in the seventies, his passion and influence kept the urban electric blues relevant and contemporary, rather than aging and cliched.
@@jackparkes9310 Search up the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at Woodstock Footage, you'll see David Sanborn right there, his first gig at 19 with Paul Butterfield.
I like him on "Buddy's Advice" from Keep on Moving, which I think was the last great album PB did. But being PB, he kept doing all kinds of things with different people and it was always good and often great. He always attracted the best talent, naturally, and Sanborn sure fits the profile.
😢🙏🏽🙏🏽 I hate having to edit this but I do on the 12th of May 2024 we lost David Sanborn to cancer. Another great saxophone silenced. 😢 well we lost Paul back in 87 we lost Leon a few years back and now it's sad day on June 6th 2019 we lost Mac.. 🎹 yes indeed Mac rebennack best known to the world is the one and only Dr. John died of a massive heart attack.🌷🌷🌷
I lived in Woodstock 1982-1973 on the Ohayo Mtn. Paul and his lovely wife Kathy were tenants of mine for a couple of years. Wonderful couple . Came to find out that Paul lived on 51st street in Chicago while I was on 55th street but we never met until Woodstock. One hell of a musician!
Anyone knows "The Band" with Robby Robertson, recognizes that drummer Levon Helm! This is a great R&B rendition of this classic that's been done by many Including the Beatles and Rascals.
Hey Phyllis - Im from Queens and Im 37 now & love - Band/Dead/allmans/ Muddy/Albert King/Freddy King/Johnny Winter/NRPS/Delaney & Bonnie/Bloomfield/Butterfield so basically you always hear about the late 60's early 70s but except for Levons book they never talk about the late 70s/early 80s and on. I have every Levon solo & Band album. I sometimes think what it would be like to live there when levon & co., Van Morrison, Dr. John, Butterfield roamed around. you were lucky to be there!
I don't think there will ever be a greater harmonica Paul Butterfield. for the Age he lived in, which may extend for the next 2-3 hundred years. There are other harmonica players who can play faster, but they don't have the innate genius Butterfield had which only comes along every four or five centuries. He was a straight up genius and it must have been difficult to him to deal with the various sidemen who were not even in his League. It's just their other harmonica players in his age, whom he stole from, but there were none who even approached is genius, not to this day. Kind of like his side man said, Butterfield was the greatest harmonica player of all time. You can't copy him, like I tried for years, you can only really appreciate him. It's not the notes, it's the magic.
@@ScreaminJames For sure.......where did Butterfield get his start? Listening to Little Walter. Butterfield of course made it his own (I am a pro harp player 48 years) and Little Walter is "untouchable" in that aspect of swinging inventive blues harp playing. Butterfield surely though "delivers the goods" and I love it when he had the horn section like at Woodstock.
@@murattaner7384 I discovered The Paul Butterfield blues band in 1966, in England, but only from their album. I went and bought the album as soon as I could. I would have loved to have seen the band or just Paul. What a player and singer he was. You are indeed blessed Murat👌😍 I eventually bought it on CD, but now we have RUclips and Spotify, so I have a long playlist of PB tracks on their😁 He has been missed by many, he was the very best and unique in his wonderful playing. He will never be bettered. xx
@@sandragriffiths9692 What can I say Sandra, please make sure you let me know when you are around İstanbul:)) We ll talk about dear Paul and I ll tell you the incredible performance he gave when everybody thought he was more or less totally gone in 1986 :))))) (and other bitterly sweet memories). Such a GENTLEMAN in capital letters :)))))
@@murattaner7384 That would be lovely, but very unlikely. I nearly got to Istanbul (from Greece) l in 1970, but couldn't get in because of Cholera. I wish you well, you must have great memories of the great man. It sounds like he had a great friend in you and you made memories together. Wonderful😁Stay safe in these strange times. 😊
Like a previous comment, I had been looking for this since it was on the Old Grey Whistle Test and had an audio recording of it that a friend had taped from the show. THANK YOU. One of the true genius harp players, unfortunately never got to see him.
when paul starts playing hes gone ....100% present then and there...awesome how he blows his lung out .....then starts singing without taking a breath...and paul was a smoker....lesson on how to play with feel
I read elsewhere that this is, maybe, Not Dr. John [though it looks like him]. It was suggested the pianist was one of Butter's regular keys guys, though the name escapes me. It's still one of my two favorite Butter and Sanborn clips, the other being them playing Driftin' Blues at Woodstock in 1969.
Arguably. Little Walter and both Sonny Boys established the vocabulary, Walter Horton was the tone master using his hands especially. Paul Butterfield took the whole thing to another level of fluency and intensity.
Yeah, that's right. Took the whole thing to another level of fluency and intensity. And musicianship. Tons of British bands just cleaned it up and stole it. Nothing against them, but who picked it up and made it better? Butterfield. He was a great musician by any standard.
It's kinda funny in a way. Butterfield has been dead since 1984 and still a lot of people think he was the greatest of all time. Sort of like Muhamed Ali, he just had greatness plastered all over him, in the same way. Actually Ali had it in a slightly different way; he was interested in defending his own people and had to take on very bright media personalities - even though some of them were smarter than him he found a way to win. With humor and personality. i think he is underrated as a leader.
I can't thank you enough for posting this...I saw it when the programme was broadcast (on The Old Grey Whistle Test) but haven't been able to find it since. Priceless - a master at one of his artistic peaks - this is what You Tube is for! Best wishes from the U.K.
OK.....I'm sure this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but......when Sanborn is soloing it sounds SO awesome! I would have loved it if Mr Butterfield had taken the harp out of his mouth at that moment and given Dave the spotlight......
Check the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at Woodstock live video footage, he gives David Sanborn his solos.....as his first gig at 19 with Paul's band. David Sanborn also shares about his experiences in that band in Butterfield's bio movie.
Love this. Thanks for posting!! I was hoping Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn would be in this but I guess not. And I always think of Clapton when I see Paul. They look so much alike.
@guitarandharp Thank you for the great comment, it is a pleasure to be able to share this....As you can see Paul was also collaborating with other giants of the music world at this time in the late 70's, he also recorded an album with Garth Hudson in LA during this time that has never been released, I know one of the songs was 'Naked In The Jungle", not sure if the lp was to be titled that or not ? The cover was to be Paul and Garth with a orangutan on the beach...
Hi pe54unidyne3 Thanks for your message and the surreal image of Paul and Garth which now inhabits my mind... And thanks again for sharing this, it means a lot to me. Best wishes to all contributors
Just out of curiosity is this version available on any albums? I have the rendition on the "North, South" album I think it is, but irbid much different than this one. Regardless this version is my favorite song now, the simple licks Butterfield plays, and their placement prove his prowess and why he is one of the best.
there would be a guitar player when Paul would take the arceo's on tour with different members with Rick and buzzy feiten would be seen pretty much for quite a few years from the late 70s on with Paul
@iArchery No this version is not on any albums unfortunately. Simple....?? I have never heard anyone be able to emulate Paul's licks properly...and I have heard alot of players, I understand what you are saying and it certainly does prove his prowess..personally I would describe it as TASTEFUL. Apart from Paul's musicianship and band leading skills, his singing, playing and timing were as one and are without parallel even to this day, he will always be the best in my book...
"his singing, playing and timing were as one and are without parallel even to this day" Sonny Boy II. Look around on Tube. Not as raunchy and adventerous as Butter - but PERFECT. Don't get me wrong. Going on 50 years now, Paul still blows me away every time I listen to him. One AMAZING musician. Sonny Boy won't thrill you the same way - but he was perfect.
He sang the bridge lyrics in place of the 2nd verse and the 2nd verse last but it's all good....it really makes little difference in this case...it's just another 1-4-5 chord progression and they are having fun. It's one of my favorite Beatle tunes which was a copy from another composer in their early days.
Thanks so much for posting this. Butter brought together some really hot and really smooth players. Like the "Live" album recorded at the Troubadour. As a harp player,listening to Butter love and inspiration. Check out his opening solo on "Everything Gonna Be Alright."
it did but a lot of it isn't really availablethey were known as the rco All-Stars up in upstate New York near Woodstock bearsville..producer Albert Grossman had a pad up there who produced Paul for years and Paul by the first house up there about 76 77 in bearsville. here where he met a couple of guys from the bandone year prior at the famous last Waltz concert.. he struck up a great friendship with The Great Rick Danko whom would tour with a few years after the rco All-Stars. but if you notice on drums that's the late great Levon Helm one of the founders of the band on keyboards because he's not really fat and wearing Voodoo stuff looking more like an everyday Joe that's Mac Rebenbac otherwise known as the great dr. John pumpkin on saxophone one sound to tell you who that is that's an original Paul Butterfield band member in the second stage of the band the one the only great jazz man himself David Sanborn..what's really cool about this is your listening to it you almost hear the call and response between Pauls harp and Dave sax as they're both honking away. the only one not present up here in bearsville New York at this time is the great buzzy Fieten. he would jam with Paul also for quite some time he came on board just before Paul would form in 1972 the better days.. but they didn't need any really heavy electric guitar on this particular one cuz this was a harmonica style driven song for Paul.
No, sadly it was not (as far as I know) released on vinyl and maybe it wasn't recorded apart from this session. That has been a disappointment for me since I first heard it! It's superb isn't it? Yes, Butterfield was tasteful but he was also fiery, impassioned and INTO IT...It's a lethal combination. As I say elsewhere, I saw him in London in 1984/5 and he just about knocked me off my feet with the intensity of his vocals and harp. It's a shame that his addictions ruled his life.
they almost didn't quite towards the end but what ended up happening was he was admitted for intestinal problems from so much heavy harmonica playing he had such intensity that he gave himself some trouble..and it was right after the early eighties that along with the pain pills he would start dabbling again and heroin which pretty much would send them down to spiral for the next 5 years to his impending death at age 44.. literally just abused his body to wear it couldn't even be saved.
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Paul Butterfield turned me on to blues when I was just a kid. Been a fan ever since. Love his music. Wish he and Bloomfield were still around.
Love his vocals as much as his incredibly soulful harp playing. Paul was definitely one of the Blues greats..
Yes Pauls singing sounded like Otis Rush
Got to love his songs
Wow! This is what happens when a bunch of the best get together!
Dr John and Paul Butterfield. Sign me up.
Thank you, whoever you are, for this masterpiece show. Butter, Levon, Dr. John, David Sanborn. How was one stage big enough to hold 'em?
One of the greatest bluesmen of all time and what a harp player.I am as usual, in awe.
What a tone!! Nobody can copy him. There is flowing soul out of the small metal tongues....So much. No words for it!
OMG I know.
Paul never practiced harmonica. He was given classical flute training as a child. Listen to those runs!
Smokin.
What a groove w no geetar or bass, just 4 fab musicians.
Butter is the man.
Was stunned to hear Levon Helms's voice suddenly, can't miss that sound. Was also surprised to see David Sanborn of smooth jazz fame rockin' out. Great old Larry Williams song, maybe my favorite John Lennon vocal.
You got to remember Paul and David jammed back-in-the-day David was a part of the Butterfield Blues Band
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist I did mot know that about Sanborn!
@@ronrice1931 yep starting with the 1967 album the resurrection of pig-boy crabshaw and the next three subsequent releases of the Butterfield Blues Band
He popped up in his better days years with Paul again for jam.
I remember reading once someone saying something about players who have "the cry". Anyone in any of Butter's bands had it in spades -- just listen to him & Sanborn trading at the end and you get it. that's why al his bands were so great.
Good critique!
What a band! Every player a star! The RCO All-stars also had Booker T Jones, Duck Dunn & Steve Cropper! Levon Helm & the RCO All-Stars
Paul's magic happens when he get together with these great players...
Actually I have to disagree in a Small way. Butter was great even when he played with inferior bands which I won't mention.
Even in this video when he was with really good musicans he still managed to outshine all of them.
Pity in the case of the sax player who laid back a little to let Butter shine.
@@ron2shoes980 Sanoborn showing respect
@@ron2shoes980 No pity needed! If you check out the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at Woodstock, the live footage, there is a young 19 year old David Sanborn on Sax......his first band and break in the music business. David Sanborn shares in his interview for Butterfield's bio movie that playing in that band, the dynamics of it led by Butterfield's harp, was like no other band he played in before or since. Sure he was maybe laying back a bit but they were also trading licks at the end. Respect!
God rest Paul and Levon's souls! Great loss of talent.
Absolutely I adore Levon and Paul they continue to blow me away
And, now, David Sanborn.
Great discovery! Had no idea Butterfield did this, always one of my favorites since I heard Larry Williams ( the writer and original performer of this track) do this in the late 1950's. The Beatles also have a good version, but this is totally 'worthy' as well.
This is very good but I feel a superior version to the Beatles version is by Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers especially the guitar solo. Comparing this and Bennett's they are both just as good - just different.
Great performance. Paul was a master.
the harmonica player that made me to investigate and to develop my vibrato on harp. and also to check out on ebay to buy me a Shure 545 "pistol grip" microphone. My world was never the same since that day ! Thanks a lot dear Paul !
Mine was stolen, unfortunately. I had the version with the ball, which I prefer.
remember like they called him the Jimi Hendrix of harmonica.
he played that D harp upside downwhich along with his intensity also gave him that really really hard biting heavy sound....many people forget that important thing when they tried to imitate the best they can Butters
Few recall David Sanborn started with the Butterfield band; he once said he thought his best saxophone solo was the eerie modal one on "In My Own Dream"- in which Paul sang and played no harp at all. Guitar perhaps piano? I still believe it to be one of his best songs, despite his sort of ball-and-chain relationship with the blues.
"the Greatest" either must plow new creative swaths through the established terrain, like Little Walter and Sonny Boy II, or demonstrate mastery that stuns, then demands the establishment rise to the challenge. Paul was never quite in either realm, but as an unapologetic white kid dedicated to a spurned musical genre in the seventies, his passion and influence kept the urban electric blues relevant and contemporary, rather than aging and cliched.
Had no idea David Sanborn played with him, seen him 2 or 3 times, Sanborn. I play sax and he is one of my favorites of all time!!!!
@@jackparkes9310 Search up the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at Woodstock Footage, you'll see David Sanborn right there, his first gig at 19 with Paul Butterfield.
I like him on "Buddy's Advice" from Keep on Moving, which I think was the last great album PB did. But being PB, he kept doing all kinds of things with different people and it was always good and often great. He always attracted the best talent, naturally, and Sanborn sure fits the profile.
😢🙏🏽🙏🏽 I hate having to edit this but I do on the 12th of May 2024 we lost David Sanborn to cancer.
Another great saxophone silenced.
😢 well we lost Paul back in 87 we lost Leon a few years back and now it's sad day on June 6th 2019 we lost Mac..
🎹 yes indeed Mac rebennack best known to the world is the one and only Dr. John died of a massive heart attack.🌷🌷🌷
Great all around song!The harp does stand out to me.And what a cast!Wow!..Yeah ,thanks for posting!
I'm close by,and have spent a fair amount of time in Woodstock.Still like going there,just to walk around.Yeah,so much music history there.
I lived in Woodstock 1982-1973 on the Ohayo Mtn. Paul and his lovely wife Kathy were tenants of mine for a couple of years. Wonderful couple . Came to find out that Paul lived on 51st street in Chicago while I was on 55th street but we never met until Woodstock. One hell of a musician!
Love Levon Helm
I also want to thank you for posting this. Paul butterfield is amazing as always and a young David Sanborn also shines!
Anyone knows "The Band" with Robby Robertson, recognizes that drummer Levon Helm! This is a great R&B rendition of this classic that's been done by many Including the Beatles and Rascals.
Original by Larry Williams???
Larry Williams.
Hey Phyllis - Im from Queens and Im 37 now & love - Band/Dead/allmans/ Muddy/Albert King/Freddy King/Johnny Winter/NRPS/Delaney & Bonnie/Bloomfield/Butterfield so basically you always hear about the late 60's early 70s but except for Levons book they never talk about the late 70s/early 80s and on. I have every Levon solo & Band album. I sometimes think what it would be like to live there when levon & co., Van Morrison, Dr. John, Butterfield roamed around. you were lucky to be there!
Sanborn was in Butterfields 'Pigboy Crabshaw' band.
RIP David Sanborn , from St. Louis
Glad people are enjoying it !!
Cada vez que lo escucho más me gusta
Ahuevo
RIP David Sanborn.
Captures the rock and blues spirit of Larry Williams' 1958 original "Slow Down" much better than John Lennon and the Beatles ever did.
It don't get any better than this.
I don't think there will ever be a greater harmonica Paul Butterfield. for the Age he lived in, which may extend for the next 2-3 hundred years. There are other harmonica players who can play faster, but they don't have the innate genius Butterfield had which only comes along every four or five centuries. He was a straight up genius and it must have been difficult to him to deal with the various sidemen who were not even in his League.
It's just their other harmonica players in his age, whom he stole from, but there were none who even approached is genius, not to this day. Kind of like his side man said, Butterfield was the greatest harmonica player of all time.
You can't copy him, like I tried for years, you can only really appreciate him.
It's not the notes, it's the magic.
Ion
Little Walter, for crying out loud...
@@ScreaminJames For sure.......where did Butterfield get his start? Listening to Little Walter. Butterfield of course made it his own (I am a pro harp player 48 years) and Little Walter is "untouchable" in that aspect of swinging inventive blues harp playing. Butterfield surely though "delivers the goods" and I love it when he had the horn section like at Woodstock.
ı was blessed with his friendship in the last two years of his life.
You are very blessed💓
@@sandragriffiths9692 I am/was indeed. Thank you. May Kök Tengri Bless his soul :)))
@@murattaner7384 I discovered The Paul Butterfield blues band in 1966, in England, but only from their album. I went and bought the album as soon as I could. I would have loved to have seen the band or just Paul. What a player and singer he was. You are indeed blessed Murat👌😍 I eventually bought it on CD, but now we have RUclips and Spotify, so I have a long playlist of PB tracks on their😁 He has been missed by many, he was the very best and unique in his wonderful playing. He will never be bettered. xx
@@sandragriffiths9692 What can I say Sandra, please make sure you let me know when you are around İstanbul:)) We ll talk about dear Paul and I ll tell you the incredible performance he gave when everybody thought he was more or less totally gone in 1986 :))))) (and other bitterly sweet memories). Such a GENTLEMAN in capital letters :)))))
@@murattaner7384 That would be lovely, but very unlikely. I nearly got to Istanbul (from Greece) l in 1970, but couldn't get in because of Cholera. I wish you well, you must have great memories of the great man. It sounds like he had a great friend in you and you made memories together. Wonderful😁Stay safe in these strange times. 😊
I miss you Paul!
What a lineup! Thanks for this.
Of the 20+ shows I saw @ the Fillmore East, Paul Butterfield was the headliner of the first show. 1967/68
TALENT , TALENT , TALENT.....
What a driving beat! Chicago style.
Blues ,blues,blues, it's you I hate to lose.
Like a previous comment, I had been looking for this since it was on the Old Grey Whistle Test and had an audio recording of it that a friend had taped from the show. THANK YOU. One of the true genius harp players, unfortunately never got to see him.
Anyone from Woodstock? I was 12yrs old and these were our local mucsicians...
Willow ! 73-75 Butter picked me up hitching!
Wrong Place Wrong Time was my standby on the juke box at Big boys LOL and Butter Yeah Baby!
Damn! So good...................................
when paul starts playing hes gone ....100% present then and there...awesome how he blows his lung out .....then starts singing without taking a breath...and paul was a smoker....lesson on how to play with feel
MERAVIGLIOSO GRAZIE
So good!!!
Sounds to me like the Doctor is adapting his groove from Mama Roux. This is a real gem.
I read elsewhere that this is, maybe, Not Dr. John [though it looks like him]. It was suggested the pianist was one of Butter's regular keys guys, though the name escapes me. It's still one of my two favorite Butter and Sanborn clips, the other being them playing Driftin' Blues at Woodstock in 1969.
No no no no no no that is Dr John
The night tripper himself Mac R
You have to remember in the cocaine years of the 70s he was a lot thinner.
Amazing brilliant Paul Butterfield Levon helm dr John
you forgetting about David Sanborn on sax? better Google his name
素晴らしい！！
今まで観たことなかったバタフィールドの映像です(泣)
こういう隠れた動画、映像にお目にかかりたいものです
BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test ... Bearsville Picnic. Bearsville Studios Studio B.
+Chris Hansen this is an Old Grey Whistle Test clip?
Incredible
PAUL BUTTERFIELD WAS THE GREATEST
HARP PLAYER THAT EVERLIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He's great and no one can dispute that... but to say he's the greatest is a matter of opinion. Walter Horton certainly ranks up there.
SJS Paul & Little Walter & Kim Wilson & Sugar Blue
Arguably. Little Walter and both Sonny Boys established the vocabulary, Walter Horton was the tone master using his hands especially. Paul Butterfield took the whole thing to another level of fluency and intensity.
Yeah, that's right. Took the whole thing to another level of fluency and intensity. And musicianship. Tons of British bands just cleaned it up and stole it. Nothing against them, but who picked it up and made it better? Butterfield. He was a great musician by any standard.
It's kinda funny in a way. Butterfield has been dead since 1984 and still a lot of people think he was the greatest of all time.
Sort of like Muhamed Ali, he just had greatness plastered all over him, in the same way.
Actually Ali had it in a slightly different way; he was interested in defending his own people and had to take on very bright media personalities - even though some of them were smarter than him he found a way to win. With humor and personality. i think he is underrated as a leader.
The Masters.
love this!
dave sanborn!! saxist
Thanks Mark...made me bust out the harps and wail along!
Love this!!!
Yeah, I join the others, thanks a lot for posting this. Live Paul is great. Been a fan for like 45 years
Badass jam 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I can't thank you enough for posting this...I saw it when the programme was broadcast (on The Old Grey Whistle Test) but haven't been able to find it since. Priceless - a master at one of his artistic peaks - this is what You Tube is for!
Best wishes from the U.K.
Such a fonky arrangement . I always love Paul's voice. Get on down !
OK.....I'm sure this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but......when Sanborn is soloing it sounds SO awesome! I would have loved it if Mr Butterfield had taken the harp out of his mouth at that moment and given Dave the spotlight......
Check the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at Woodstock live video footage, he gives David Sanborn his solos.....as his first gig at 19 with Paul's band. David Sanborn also shares about his experiences in that band in Butterfield's bio movie.
Thanks a lot from Italy
What a combo!
It's the RCO all stars
Love this. Thanks for posting!! I was hoping Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn would be in this but I guess not. And I always think of Clapton when I see Paul. They look so much alike.
@guitarandharp Thank you for the great comment, it is a pleasure to be able to share this....As you can see Paul was also collaborating with other giants of the music world at this time in the late 70's, he also recorded an album with Garth Hudson in LA during this time that has never been released, I know one of the songs was 'Naked In The Jungle", not sure if the lp was to be titled that or not ? The cover was to be Paul and Garth with a orangutan on the beach...
Hi pe54unidyne3
Thanks for your message and the surreal image of Paul and Garth which now inhabits my mind...
And thanks again for sharing this, it means a lot to me.
Best wishes to all contributors
Soul full
Soulful
SWEET!
thanks again for a great share..
Just out of curiosity is this version available on any albums? I have the rendition on the "North, South" album I think it is, but irbid much different than this one.
Regardless this version is my favorite song now, the simple licks Butterfield plays, and their placement prove his prowess and why he is one of the best.
Saw Paul and the band tour Pigboy at the Guthrie. Just this good.
Thanks so much for this post. Wow!
Too good
paul was the best harmonica player ther ever was
Great song
Amazing!
Awesome
💜
looks like Levon
it is
Oh my God, what a "band". I even forgot there were no guitar player!
there would be a guitar player when Paul would take the arceo's on tour with different members with Rick and buzzy feiten would be seen pretty much for quite a few years from the late 70s on with Paul
And no bass, either. Mac's got it covered with his left hand on the B3, while his right hand does the piano.
Alright young Dave....love it
Wow is all I can say......
Pure Magic!!!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Like Mike Bloomfield said, Paul would walk into a blues club, Little Walter & Junior Wells would put their harmonicas down...nuff said.
wrcklss13 Dont really think Little Walter would.
You’re distorting the facts.
They would have let him fill in only when they were taking a break.
No disrespect. I love Butterfield, but that statement is crazy.
@@mrhenning27 Bloomfield said it and I have it on tape
@@VBForbes That doesn't make it right.
@iArchery No this version is not on any albums unfortunately. Simple....?? I have never heard anyone be able to emulate Paul's licks properly...and I have heard alot of players, I understand what you are saying and it certainly does prove his prowess..personally I would describe it as TASTEFUL. Apart from Paul's musicianship and band leading skills, his singing, playing and timing were as one and are without parallel even to this day, he will always be the best in my book...
Great BLUES
Sanborn plays his sax like a harmonica and Butterfield plays his harp like a sax. Bad ass!!
Nice Dave;star-studded.
"his singing, playing and timing were as one and are without parallel even to this day"
Sonny Boy II. Look around on Tube. Not as raunchy and adventerous as Butter - but PERFECT.
Don't get me wrong. Going on 50 years now, Paul still blows me away every time I listen to him. One AMAZING musician. Sonny Boy won't thrill you the same way - but he was perfect.
He sang the bridge lyrics in place of the 2nd verse and the 2nd verse last but it's all good....it really makes little difference in this case...it's just another 1-4-5 chord progression and they are having fun. It's one of my favorite Beatle tunes which was a copy from another composer in their early days.
Larry Williams.
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No excuse for what was done to Paul, exploited in life, now in death with fake documentary.Our son is 43 now, looks like you to me.💔🥀
Thanks so much for posting this. Butter brought together some really hot and really smooth players. Like the "Live" album recorded at the Troubadour. As a harp player,listening to Butter love and inspiration. Check out his opening solo on "Everything Gonna Be Alright."
It would be interesting w/ some more info on this session. Top players all over. Did it yeild anything else beside this?
it did but a lot of it isn't really availablethey were known as the rco All-Stars up in upstate New York near Woodstock bearsville..producer Albert Grossman had a pad up there who produced Paul for years and Paul by the first house up there about 76 77 in bearsville.
here where he met a couple of guys from the bandone year prior at the famous last Waltz concert.. he struck up a great friendship with The Great Rick Danko whom would tour with a few years after the rco All-Stars. but if you notice on drums that's the late great Levon Helm one of the founders of the band
on keyboards because he's not really fat and wearing Voodoo stuff looking more like an everyday Joe that's Mac Rebenbac otherwise known as the great dr. John
pumpkin on saxophone one sound to tell you who that is that's an original Paul Butterfield band member in the second stage of the band the one the only great jazz man himself David Sanborn..what's really cool about this is your listening to it you almost hear the call and response between Pauls harp and Dave sax as they're both honking away.
the only one not present up here in bearsville New York at this time is the great buzzy Fieten. he would jam with Paul also for quite some time he came on board just before Paul would form in 1972 the better days.. but they didn't need any really heavy electric guitar on this particular one cuz this was a harmonica style driven song for Paul.
What can I even say about this??? Wow.........
That’s some great shit going on there
No, sadly it was not (as far as I know) released on vinyl and maybe it wasn't recorded apart from this session. That has been a disappointment for me since I first heard it! It's superb isn't it?
Yes, Butterfield was tasteful but he was also fiery, impassioned and INTO IT...It's a lethal combination. As I say elsewhere, I saw him in London in 1984/5 and he just about knocked me off my feet with the intensity of his vocals and harp.
It's a shame that his addictions ruled his life.
they almost didn't quite towards the end but what ended up happening was he was admitted for intestinal problems from so much heavy harmonica playing he had such intensity that he gave himself some trouble..and it was right after the early eighties that along with the pain pills he would start dabbling again and heroin which pretty much would send them down to spiral for the next 5 years to his impending death at age 44.. literally just abused his body to wear it couldn't even be saved.