Butterfield Blues Band – East-West

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East-West is the second album by The Butterfield Blues Band led by Paul Butterfield, released in 1966.

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Description

This album features traditional blues covers and the guitar work of Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop.

The album is also credited with spawning the harder acid rock sound. The track “East-West”, with its early use of the extended rock solo, has been described as laying “the roots of psychedelic acid rock” and featuring “much of acid-rock’s eventual DNA”.

The band members appearing on the album were all inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.

Additional information

Catalog#

P 8274A

Artist

Butterfield Blues Band

Album

East-West

Label

Elektra

Format

LP

Released

1973

Media/Sleeve

NM/NM

Pressing

Japan

Notes

With insert