Butterfield's Better Days
December 30, 1973 · Record Plant Sausalito
Paul Butterfield dissolved the Butterfield Blues Band in 1971 and assembled Better Days in Woodstock with Amos Garrett, Geoff Muldaur, Ronnie Barron, Billy Rich, and Chris Parker. The group drew from Delta blues, New Orleans R&B, and early country before any of those threads had been labeled a genre. They closed out 1973 at the Record Plant on December 30, the last KSAN broadcast of the year. The set was later officially released by Klondike as Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It, and remains one of the clearest documented lines from a Record Plant broadcast to a commercial release.
- Type
- Live Broadcast
- Date Recorded
- December 30, 1973
- Date Broadcast
- December 30, 1973
KSAN 95 FM broadcast. Record Plant Sausalito, 12/30/1973. CENSUS 2026-05-31: Recording CONFIRMED. URL1: Internet Archive (butterfields-better-days-1973-record-plant-ksan); URL2: YouTube full broadcast (f9hOIIuyOfA). Official CD: 'Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It - Live At The Record Plant 1973' (Klondike), entire KSAN broadcast remastered, also on Tidal. Personnel: Paul Butterfield (vocals/harmonica), Amos Garrett (guitar), Ronnie Barron (piano/vocals). SETLIST (per Klondike CD): New Walkin' Blues / Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It / Broke My Baby's Heart / Done A Lot Of Wrong Things / He's Got All The Whiskey / It All Comes Back / Down In The Bottom / Too Many Drivers. PROVENANCE NOTE: the IA item is KSAN tracks 1-10 only; tracks 11-14 are spliced in from a separate 1973 Boston radio broadcast. Klondike CD is the clean KSAN-only reference. Recording Type: FM Broadcast. Audio: Yes. Setlist: Yes. Confidence: High. ARTICLE: see Articles table (Researching).
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