The Butterfield Blues Band: Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smiling (Elektra)
Jon Tiven, Creem, November 1971
THE TWO PACED the floor of Cutler's Record Shop, trying to decide whether or not to buy the new Butterfield album. They bought a lot of records: connoseuiers of fine music.
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