Well, it only took me 41 years, but I finally got around to buying the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's 
second album, East-West.
I've had their first, self-titled album in vinyl and later CD for decades, but for some odd reason, I never picked up East-West.
I remedied that oversight tonight on iTunes, after first determining that it wasn't available as a download from Amazon.com.
Good God! It was certainly well worth the wait.
Butterfield was the master of the blues harmonica with a style so distinctive as to be instantly recognizable and this is about as good as white guys have ever done the blues.
And all along, I thought Mary, Mary belonged to the Monkees. Doh!
You won't find a better fusion of blues and rock than this album. It was incredibly influential in 1966 and it's still a kick-ass album today.
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