The Paul Butterfield Blues Band-Got A Mind To Give Up Living-Live 1966
First time release, legendary recordings from the Unicorn Coffee House, May, 1966, Cambridge, MA.
Paul Butterfield - vocals, harmonica
Mike Bloomfield - guitar
Elvin Bishop - guitar, vocals
Mark Naftalin - keyboards
Jerome Arnold - bass
Billy Davenport - drums
Tracks
1. Instrumental Intro
2. Look Over Yonders Wall
3. Born in Chicago
4. Love Her With A Feeling
5. Get Out Of My Life, Woman
6. Never Say No
7. One More Heartache
8. Work Song
9. Comin' Home Baby
10. Memory Pain
11. I Got A Mind To Give Up Living
12. Walking By Myself
13. Got My Mojo Working
If the Summer of 1967 was the Summer of Love, the Summer of 1966 set the stage for the musical revolution that was to come. Albums released during the season, like The Beatles' Revolver and The Byrds' Fifth Dimension, brilliantly blended the burgeoning influence of Eastern exoticism into the rock music format, and the term "psychedelia" the common lexicon to stay. But beating them all to the punch was a multi-racial blues band that cut its teeth in Chicago, far from the hippie havens of London, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Issued in July 1966, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band's East-West took blues-rock to places only free jazz had dared to tread, offering lengthy, modal improvisational passages that sparked the West Coast rock revolution, and, in Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop, fully unleashing the first great guitar tandem in rock history. Now, Real Gone Music is very proud to release, for the first time in legitimate fashion, a legendary bootleg that captures this singular sextet on the brink of the stylistic breakthrough that would shake the rock 'n' roll world to its core: recorded live at Boston's Unicorn Coffee House 50 years ago in May 1966, two months before the release of East-West, Got a Mind to Give Up Living-Live 1966 reaffirms that The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was simply untouchable live, capable of turning on a dime from slow-burning blues tunes to up-tempo rave-ups.
First time release, legendary recordings from the Unicorn Coffee House, May, 1966, Cambridge, MA.
Paul Butterfield - vocals, harmonica
Mike Bloomfield - guitar
Elvin Bishop - guitar, vocals
Mark Naftalin - keyboards
Jerome Arnold - bass
Billy Davenport - drums
Tracks
1. Instrumental Intro
2. Look Over Yonders Wall
3. Born in Chicago
4. Love Her With A Feeling
5. Get Out Of My Life, Woman
6. Never Say No
7. One More Heartache
8. Work Song
9. Comin' Home Baby
10. Memory Pain
11. I Got A Mind To Give Up Living
12. Walking By Myself
13. Got My Mojo Working
If the Summer of 1967 was the Summer of Love, the Summer of 1966 set the stage for the musical revolution that was to come. Albums released during the season, like The Beatles' Revolver and The Byrds' Fifth Dimension, brilliantly blended the burgeoning influence of Eastern exoticism into the rock music format, and the term "psychedelia" the common lexicon to stay. But beating them all to the punch was a multi-racial blues band that cut its teeth in Chicago, far from the hippie havens of London, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Issued in July 1966, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band's East-West took blues-rock to places only free jazz had dared to tread, offering lengthy, modal improvisational passages that sparked the West Coast rock revolution, and, in Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop, fully unleashing the first great guitar tandem in rock history. Now, Real Gone Music is very proud to release, for the first time in legitimate fashion, a legendary bootleg that captures this singular sextet on the brink of the stylistic breakthrough that would shake the rock 'n' roll world to its core: recorded live at Boston's Unicorn Coffee House 50 years ago in May 1966, two months before the release of East-West, Got a Mind to Give Up Living-Live 1966 reaffirms that The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was simply untouchable live, capable of turning on a dime from slow-burning blues tunes to up-tempo rave-ups.
