Paul Butterfield was amazing, and always had amazing bands, but this album is fairly uneven. It was his second album in a move to adopt a more jazz/soul sound, which is the cool part of this record. The other blues holdout tracks are what drag this album down. It was also the last album Elvin Bishop played on, which may account for these. The cliche song Drunk Again was written by Bishop. All that said, though, this album is worth the price of admission for the lead off track, Last Hope's Gone, really the entire A side. Now, some may be saying, 'hey, Til, it is called the Butterfield Blues Band.' That's true, and they did some killer blues albums, but this album feels like part of the band wants to expand to be different, and part are just being stalwarts with their feet planted firmly in the sand.
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