The Butterfield Blues Band — Keep On Moving

This was actually my first Paul Butterfield album, picked up just a year ago as part of my late-blooming Butterfield/Bloomfield/Kooper fascination. This 1969 release is more of the kind of horn-based soul that filled the previous album, “In My Own Dream.” It’s not the gutsy electric blues punch of the band’s first album from just four years before – I give Butterfield and all these guys credit for constantly changing. Now, this was the late ’60s, when music was changing at a crazy pace anyway, but still … there were other blues acts that didn’t change in any way, and some that dipped their toes in experimental waters in ways that were a bit embarrassing. That was never the case for Butterfield. Hence the title: Keep On Moving. He definitely did.

Listening to this again – on Christmas Eve, just a few months after originally posting this in August 2022 – and man, this is some smooth blues.