It All Comes Back
cover photo detail by Styrous®
In addition to my 20,000 Vinyl LP collection I'm selling, I have reel-to-reel, pre-recorded tapes I am selling as well (see link below).
This entry is about the reel-to-reel tape, It All Comes Back, by Paul Butterfield’s Better Days. For more information, contact me by email but please, not through a comment.
"We're the only band around that's playing rooted American music," Better Days vocalist and former folkie Geoff Muldaur told an interviewer when this album was first released in 1973, and he was right. The band's mix of various styles of blues, from rural (Robert Johnson), to cosmopolitan (Percy Mayfield), along with hints of New Orleans R&B, boogie woogie, and early rock and country, was tremendously out of step with the pop trends of its time.
This entry is about the reel-to-reel tape, It All Comes Back, by Paul Butterfield’s Better Days. For more information, contact me by email but please, not through a comment.
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"We're the only band around that's playing rooted American music," Better Days vocalist and former folkie Geoff Muldaur told an interviewer when this album was first released in 1973, and he was right. The band's mix of various styles of blues, from rural (Robert Johnson), to cosmopolitan (Percy Mayfield), along with hints of New Orleans R&B, boogie woogie, and early rock and country, was tremendously out of step with the pop trends of its time.
These days, of course, there are many bands doing more or less the same
thing (although rarely as well), but the fact that these guys couldn't
have cared less about appearing trendy is one of the reasons why Better Days sounds timeless. Another reason, of course, is world class
musicianship; Muldaur, Paul Butterfield, and stupendously stylish
guitarist Amos Garrett in particular come across as both relaxed and
passionate. Despite their essentially formalistic approach to music
making, they never sound academic or sterile. Better Days is one of the
great lost albums of the '70s.
photo of cover back by Styrous®
It All Comes Back
reel-to-reel tape
reel-to-reel tape
photo by Styrous®
It All Comes Back
reel-to-reel tape label detail
reel-to-reel tape label detail
detail photo by Styrous®
Tracklist:
1 - Too Many Drivers - Vocals - Paul Butterfield / Written By Andrew Hogg - 3:18
2 - It's Getting Harder To Survive - Vocals and Written By - Ronnie Barron - 3:51
3 - If You Live - Vocals - Paul Butterfield / Written By Mose Allison - 3:27
4 - Win Or Lose - Vocals - Paul Butterfield / Written By Bobby Charles and Paul Butterfield - 4:34
5 - Small Town Talk - Vocals - Geoff Muldaur / Written By Bobby Charles and Rick Danko - 5:33
6 - Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It - Vocals and Written by - Bobby Charles and Paul Butterfield - 3:42
7 - Poor Boy - Vocals and Arranged By [And Adapted] Geoff Muldaur - 4:17
7 - Poor Boy - Vocals and Arranged By [And Adapted] Geoff Muldaur - 4:17
8 - Louisiana Flood - Vocals - Ronnie Barron / Written By Mac Rebennack and Ronnie Barron - 3:35
9 - It All Comes Back - Vocals - Geoff Muldaur and Paul Butterfield / Written By Bobby Charles - 6:10
Credits
- Congas – Bobbye Hall
- Horns – Howard Johnson (3)
- Musicians – Amos Garrett, Billy Rich*, Christopher Parker*
- Vocals – Bobby Charles, Maria Muldaur
- Producer – Geoff Muldaur, Paul Butterfield
- Photography By – Alan MacWeeney*
- Mastered By – RL*
- Design [Album] – Milton Glaser
- Engineer, Producer – Nick Jameson
Companies etc
- Distributed By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
- Mastered At – Sterling Sound
- Label: Bearsville – BST 2170-CReleased: 1973
reel-to-reel tapes on eBay
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