Paul Butterfield's Better Days: Better Days (Bearsville); Original Soundtrack: Steelyard Blues (Warner Brothers)

IT'S BEEN nearly 18 months since we heard anything new from Paul Butterfield. In 1971 he released Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin' which was, in a sense, the culmination of the brass section experimentation that began in 1967 with the somewhat oddty-titled Resurrection Of Pigboy Crabshaw.