The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw

by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Paul Butterfield

Overview

The 1968 edition of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band featured a larger ensemble with a horn section, allowing for a jazzier feeling while retaining its Chicago blues core. They also adopted the psychedelic flower power stance of the era, as evidenced by a few selections, the rather oblique title, and the stunning pastiche art work on the cover. Butterfield himself was really coming into his own playing harmonica and singing, while his band of keyboardist Mark Naftalin, guitarist Elvin Bishop, drummer Phil Wilson, electric bassist Bugsy Maugh, and the horns featuring young alto saxophonist David Sanborn was as cohesive a unit as you'd find in this time period. Butterfield's most well-known song "One More Heartache" kicks off the album, a definitive blues-rock radio favorite with great harmonica and an infectious beat urged on by the top-notch horns. The band covers "Born Under a Bad Sign" at a time when Cream also did it. "Driftin' & Driftin'" is another well-known tune, and at over nine minutes stretches out with the horns cryin' and sighin', including a definitive solo from Sanborn over the choruses. There's the Otis Rush tune "Double Trouble," and "Drivin' Wheel" penned by Roosevelt Sykes; Butterfield wrote two tunes, including "Run Out of Time" and the somewhat psychedelic "Tollin' Bells," where Bishop's guitar and Naftalin's slow, ringing, resonant keyboard evokes a haunting feeling. This is likely the single best Butterfield album of this time period and you'd be well served to pick this one up. ~ Michael G. Nastos

Product Details

Release Date:	10/03/1989
Label:	Elektra
UPC:	0075596091121

Tracks

1. One More Heartache
2. Driftin' and Driftin'
3. Pity the Fool
4. Born Under a Bad Sign
5. Run Out of Time
6. Double Trouble
7. Drivin' Wheel
8. Droppin' Out
9. Tollin' Bells

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Paul Butterfield   Primary Artist,Vocals,Harmonica
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band   Primary Artist
Brother Gene Dinwiddie   Saxophone,Sax (Tenor)
Phillip Wilson   Drums
Mark Naftalin   Keyboards
Bugsy Maugh   Bass,Vocals,Guitar (Bass)
Keith Johnson   Trumpet,Trumpet
Phil Wilson   Drums
David Sanborn   Saxophone,Sax (Alto)
Elvin Bishop   Guitar,Vocals

Technical Credits

Deadric Malone   Composer
Ronald White   Composer
Roosevelt Sykes   Composer
Robert Rogers   Composer
Warren "Pete" Moore   Composer
William Bell   Composer
T-Bone Burnett   Composer
Smokey Robinson   Composer
Marvin Tarplin   Composer
Oscar Brown, Jr.   Composer
Otis Rush   Composer
Lucky Peterson   Composer
Willie Dixon   Composer
Joel Brodsky   Cover Design
Gene Dinwiddle   Composer
Tucker Zimmerman   Composer
Kim Whitesides   Cover Art
Johnny Moore   Composer
William S. Harvey   Cover Design,Art Direction
Edward Williams   Composer
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band   Performer
Paul Butterfield   Composer
Billy Swan   Composer
Booker T. Jones   Composer
Charles Brown   Composer
John Court   Producer
Brother Gene Dinwiddie   Composer