Description
Release Date: 1989
Label: Bear Family Records
Track List
1. Shine the Buckle
2. Chicken Scratch
3. Sam’s Clan
4. Easy Rockin’
5. Wailin’ Walk
6. Screw Driver
7. (These Are) The Things I Love
8. Do You Care?
9. I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire
10. Tout, The
11. Long Ago
12. Giddyap Baby
13. Sweep Up
14. Sam’s Reverie
15. Who’s Got the Key
16. Ooh!
17. Linda
18. Tout, The – (alternate take)
19. Ooh! – (alternate take)
Notes
Anyone with the slightest appreciation for Louis Prima’s incredible Vegas shows of the ’50s and ’60s will instantly recognize Butera’s name… and his hard-driving, don’t-tell-’em-it’s rock ‘n’ roll sound. Butera, with his band The Witnesses, backed Prima for the better part of 20 years, but had an equally interesting career before the Vegas run. Here Bear Family collects the whole of the four sessions Butera cut for RCA in 1953/54 – 19 tracks including gems like Chicken Scratch and Easy Rockin’, 6 previously unreleased sides and two unheard alternate versions, all featuring his sweet-and-greasy, strip-joint-in-New Orleans sax.
