the butterfield blues band

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band absolutely nailed it right out of the gate with their smoking 1965 debut album. The self-titled LP spotlighted the blues-guitar genius of Mike Bloomfield alongside Butterfield's impassioned vocals and wailing harmonica, abetted by a rock-solid supporting cast of Elvin Bishop on rhythm guitar, keyboardist Mark Naftalin and Howlin' Wolf's rhythm section, Jerome Arnold on bass and drummer Sam Lay. Lionized in seminal issues of Crawdaddy! magazine at the time, the Butterfield Blues Band's first shot was also the perfect set-up for the more exotic stylings of album number two, East-West. This exact reproduction on 180 gram vinyl features all-analog mastering from the original master tapes!