Butts Band
Studio album by
Released1973
Recorded1973
GenreRock
LabelBlue Thumb
ProducerBruce Botnick
Butts Band chronology
Butts Band
(1973)
Hear and Now
(1975)

Butts Band is the first album by Butts Band, released in 1974. "Pop-a-Top" was released as a single, with "Baja Bus" on the B side. Band founders Robby Krieger and John Densmore would assemble an entirely new group of musicians for the band's second and final album, 1975's Hear and Now.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Joe Viglione gave the album a rating of three and a half out of five stars.[1] He noted that the album is "very musical and great stuff, it just had no image, introduced us to new personalities."[1]

1996 compilation

Both albums by the Butts Band were repackaged together and released in 1996 as One Way label's, "The Complete Recordings". Two studio bonus tracks, "That's All Right" and "Lovin' You For All The Right Reasons", were added to the album.

Track listing

  1. "I Won't Be Alone Anymore" (Robby Krieger)
  2. "Baja Bus" (Robby Krieger)
  3. "Sweet Danger" (Jess Roden)
  4. "Pop-A-Top" (Jess Roden, Phil Chen)
  5. "Be with Me" (Robby Krieger)
  6. "New Ways" (Jess Roden)
  7. "Love Your Brother" (Robby Krieger)
  8. "Kansas City" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

Personnel

According to the liner notes:[2]

Additional musicians

References

  1. 1 2 3 Viglione, Joe. "Buts Band – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  2. Buts Band (liner notes). Blue Thumb. 1973. Back cover. BTS-63.



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