East-West

Media Condition:  Very Good (VG)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good (VG)
Country:    US  
Released:  1966
Genre:       Rock, Blues
Style:         Blues Rock, Electric Blues, Chicago Blues, Harmonica Blues

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Notes:

Gold label with "STEREO" printed twice, once on each side of the spindle hole. Artist is shown as "BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND" on labels.
[l512061 pressing, identified by faintly-etched "ARC" in runouts, followed by a date code for every stamper. The date configuration may appear in a conventional MM-DD-YY form, but more often occurs in pressing-plant shorthand  as M/D/Y, M-D-Y, MD/Y or without separators altogether, and includes only the final digit of the year [1966, [1968, etc.

Since the date-codes are typically the only marks that distinguish one plate from the next (and each plate would only have been used for 1000 records or so), Allentown's use of the same master/matrix number and label-design makes this one single "pressing" stretching through a period of high demand from August 1966 (the initial pre-release manufacturing) to October 1968 or even later. Even the gold company inner-sleeve stayed the same.
For users who wish to identify early platings as relatively more "original", an August release date is mentioned at Michael Bloomfield's online bio (September seems more probable), and the LP debuted in the Billboard charts the week of October 8, 1966.

 

A1. Walkin' Blues 3:15
A2. Get Out Of My Life, Woman 3:13
A3. I Got A Mind To Give Up Living 4:57
A4. All These Blues 2:18
A5. Work Song 7:53
B1. Mary, Mary 2:48
B2. Two Trains Running 3:50
B3. Never Say No 2:57
B4. East-West 13:10

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout EKS-7315-A
Matrix / Runout EKS-7315-B
Matrix / Runout EKS 7315A ARC 8/25/6 Pete
Matrix / Runout EKS 7315B Pete 8/29/6
Matrix / Runout EKS 7315A ARC 10-21-66 Pete
Matrix / Runout EKS 7315B Pete ARC 10-7-66
Matrix / Runout EKS 7315A ARC 1-30-68 Pete
Matrix / Runout EKS 7315B ARC 1-24-68 Pete
Matrix / Runout EKS 7315A Pete ARC 10-15-8
Matrix / Runout EKS 7315B ARC 10-14-8 Pete
Matrix / Runout EKS 7315A ARC 4/30/8 Pete
Matrix / Runout EKS 7315B Pete ARC 51/8
Rights Society BMI

 

Pressed By Allentown Record Co. Inc.
Record Company Elektra Records
Published By Marsaint Music
Published By Upam Music
Published By Milkman Chivalree

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