Consumer Guide Album

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Golden Butter: The Best of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band [Elektra, 1972]
Butterfield's music has held up more convincingly than it's evolved, which is why forty-five out of eighty minutes were recorded between October '65 and August '66 and why the side featuring a cut each off his last three albums is the one you can skip. What sounded like "white blues" back then sounds like "rock" now--Butterfield is so modest any label fits. Prophetic guitarists, powerful drummers, better-than-average horn men, and one heck of a great harmonica player. A−