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It All Comes Back

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Paul Butterfield - an experience you'll never forget. This aalbum, "It All Comes Back" together with it's predecessor, "Better Days" form a unity. If you bet one, definitely get the other. They compliment and complete each other.

On "It All Comes back" the Paul Butterfield magic just grabs you by your ears and pulls you deep down into the feel and the miracle of his music. From "If You Live" to "It All Come Back" you can just feel the emotion and the electricity of this super band of musicians. They don't just "feel" the music of these blues . . .and they don't just "play" the music of these blues . . .but they bring that experience right into your soul. You just know the music and you become "one".
My favorite track on this album is, "Small Town Talk". It is a song of assurance and consolation that the small minded talk of small minded people doesn't really matter. "Don't pay it any mind", the song teaches, "it's just small town talk, don't listen to a word they're sayin'"! Amazing, nothing in the world or in life is that different today . . .whether in a metropolitan city or a small-town -- the talk is the same and is just as irrelevant to your life. Just keep on doin' what you know is right and ignore the empty hollow words of crisicisms. I love this song and would buy the album just for this song alone. But the rest of the album (and the rest of "Better Days as well) is more than worth buying and owning and listening to over and over again.
I miss Paul Butterfield . . . and I thank him for the music he left behind for us . . . it will last a long long time.

If you like Paul Butterfield this is a must. Blues at its best. I got this record in 1971 have been trying to find it for years on CD. The harmonica on this CD is incredible. Just sit back and listen to the best blues you have ever heard.

My brother owns the vinyl copy of "It All Comes Back". He played it so much over the years he literally WORE THE GROOVES OFF THE RECORD. So I bought him the CD. I bought one for me too as I have fond memories of listening to the record.

The whole thing rocks from the get-go. From the opening howl of Butterfield's trademark harp, to Amos Garrett's outstanding slide work, to the rock-solid rhythm section, to the fun beat of the title track, this record is absolutely brilliant stuff.

I like it all. Especially great is Ronnie Barron's vocals on "It's Getting Harder to Survive" and "Louisiana Flood". Bobby Charles lends a hand with vocals on "Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It".

Thankfully you will not wear out the grooves on the CD. I "rediscovered" this CD after not listening to it for 3 years. I have a whole new respect for this album. Buy it, even if you are not a big fan of the blues. It's good music!

I would have forgotten this album completely had it not been for the cool indie movie. "It All Comes Back" is the featured song in "Corn Dog Man", and is worth the price of the disk all by itself. I must have the vinyl somewhere, but who has time to look?

Paul Butterfield's Better Days band was Paul Butterfield's early '70's band and oh so much different from his blues based bands of the '60's. Better Days had Geoff Muldaur, a folk singer (and ex-husband of Maria Muldaur) + Amos Garrett, a singuluar guitar player that had the sweetest sting since Chet Atkins (It was Garrett's solo on Maria Mulduar's "Midnight on the Oasis".

This CD has some fine harmonica work by Butterfield but is mostly noted for the quality of the songs. "Small Towm Talk" is a heartbreaking lost classic and well worth the entrance fee to this wink/grin of the '70's.

. . .nowhere near as strong as the initial Better Days release. The strength of this lineup still astonishes me: the criminally underrated Amos Garrett on guitar, the equally under-appreciated Geoff Muldaur on vocals, Butterfield's matchless harp and a crack rhythm section. Yet somehow the chemistry doesn't quite measure up on this disc, to my ears at least. Maybe it's the material. There's not enough of Amos's sinewy, soulful guitar lines on the disc and Geoff's Small Town Talk is the vocal highlight. As a fanatical Geoff'n'Amos fan, I recommend this disc, despite my misgivings. . .Everything these guys did together is worth hearing and having. . .

glad to find this in CD to replace my stolen vinyl; Butterfield's 70's blues was some of his very best; worth buying if you don't have it

I enjoy listening to Paul Butterfield. His harmonica solos are great on this album. 1960's music is at it's best on this album.