Big Beat UK
2007
Elusive Butterfly: The Complete Jack Nitzsche Sessions
About This Album
The name of arranger/producer Jack Nitzsche is prominent in the title of this reissue, possibly because Big Beat's parent label, Ace, had done a couple of various-artists compilations of Nitzsche productions shortly before this Bob Lind anthology was released. Actually, however, it comes close to serving not only as a best-of, but also as a document of almost everything Lind recorded for his mid-'60s label, World Pacific. All 22 of the tracks from his two World Pacific LPs (Don't Be Concerned and Photographs of Feeling, both from 1966) are here, as well as an unedited version of "I Can't Walk Roads of Anger" (which first came out on the 1993 collection The Best of Bob Lind: You Might Have Heard My Footsteps) and two previously unissued acoustic demos, "Whose Is the Funeral" and "Bring It All Down." Though nothing else he did was as successful or memorable as the big hit track on the disc, "Elusive Butterfly," it does include quite a few other recordings in a similarly pioneering orchestrated folk-rock style, some of which were covered by other artists ("Mr. Zero" by Yardbirds singer Keith Relf, "Counting" by Marianne Faithfull, "Cheryl's Goin' Home" by the Blues Project, and "Drifter's Sunrise" by the Gants).
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