Paul Butterfield- Mannish boy

Paul Butterfield at the 1984 Cambridge Folk Festival

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• 1984
• blues

[blaudrogist]

This is okay. Butterfield is coasting a little, voice shot, most of the harmonica acoustic though he does plug in to let rip at the very end. Butterfield did this track on the final album 'The legendary Paul Butterfield rides again' in 1986 and I wonder if it is the lineup that did the track from the album.

[TrishRoberts3]

I was standing 30 ft from the stage here and 3,500 people would disagree about him coasting, he gave 110% for the whole hour even if he was ill , this is up there with my all time favorite gigs of all time !..this marquee exploded at the end...believe me , 25 plus years later and I still get goose bumps remembering this gig.... BTW who is the young guitarist ?

[ZackPomerleau]

Cool, Late Butterfield.

[TrishRoberts3]

Colin is playing Bass , he was a busy boy that weekend , he had his own band and played along side Pete Sayers and John D Loudermilk too plus as many sessions as there were going :) ...Tony Hix was on percussion , but no one ever said who the young lad was, I think He was brought in at the last minute .

It was sad at the end .

[BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

@ZackPomerleau loved this man, was my inspiration when i was learnig the harp at age 16, and i have been playing now for 40 years, and still pay tribute to paul everytime i'm on stage, especially when i sing Born in Chicago

[cedricleecason]

Harp playing really stands out among these muscians. Butterfield could make his harp stand out almost among anybody...one of my all-time favorites..Butterfield Sound!!!

[guitarandharp]

Hi there whest

I saw the London show (Dingwall's). 'Mannish Boy' was a lot more powerful on that show...a little slower. The first three songs were fantastic: Meet Me In The Bottom, Born In Chicago, Mannish Boy. Paul's singing and harp playing were both very strong and full of deep feeling.

After that it became chaotic, with a rambling guitar solo in No Money Down which I thought would never end.

But it's a fine memory - I can still hear and see it - thanks for posting this TrishRoberts3

[cobra12657]

Paul Butterfield has been a lifelong inspiration for me. When i first heard him back in the 70s I was stealin from Rice Miller and Magic Dick. Butter changed my whole approach to the harp.

[guydeguy]

His harp playing is great. What do you mean "coasting". Great Butterfield tone, imaginitive runs, signiture jazzy triplets, pretty strong vocal, though I never understood why he ever recorded this song. Pretty cool to do it live though. True, he was ill but this video is Butterfield on a great night.

[blaudrogist]

Pretty sure this guitarist is Colin Hodgkinson who like keyboard player Ian Stewart had a tie-up with Alexis Koerner.

Paul did record 'Mannish Boy' on the 1986 album 'The legendary Paul Butterfield rides again' whick had Blondie Chaplin on lead guitar which was pretty good. Most of the rest of the album was sort of pacy, disco stuff when this phase had passed. It was sad Paul was very ill in the finish, yes.

[blaudrogist]

Yes, thanks for the info. These two worked with Alexis Korner who I quite rated. As for 'Mannish Boy' Butterfield did play harmonica on the Muddy Waters version at the Bands farewell concert in 1976 when he was still good. He could have blown the track out of the water had it been covered on the early albums. On this video he was very ill with peritonitis and looked it. A pity.

[whest]

No-the lineup in this vid is Ian Stewart (Stones) piano,Colin Hodgkinson bass plus unk guitar and drums.Did a couple of UK shows as a pickup band,one of which I saw.Pretty much the end of the line for a great musician who is is evidently clapped out here at the age of just 42.