VA - Relaxation Blues (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

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VA - Relaxation Blues (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

Relaxation Blues gathers four discs of music shaped by tone, touch, and the emotional weight carried in unhurried phrases. Across eighty tracks and nearly a century of recordings, the set reveals a quieter lineage of the blues, one where expression is measured, space is intentional, and the listener is invited into the room rather than pushed back from it.

CD1: Early Evening Ease lays the foundation. These are the warm lights‑on performances: Charles Brown’s velvet phrasing, Percy Mayfield’s late‑night poise, Memphis Slim’s steady left hand, and the early electric glow of Otis Rush, Magic Sam, and Earl Hooker. The tempos are relaxed, the tones clean, the emotions direct. Even when the Chicago players lean into intensity, the fire is contained, shaped, and deeply human. It’s the sound of the day settling, the first exhale after the door closes behind you.

CD2: Late Night Glow widens the frame. Instrumentals drift like smoke, “Albatross,” “Samba Pa Ti,” “Cloudy Day”, while the modern players bring a reflective edge that never breaks the mood. The blues becomes expansive here, stretching into soul, jazz, and spacious guitar landscapes. The room feels larger, the lights dimmer, the emotional palette deeper.

CD3: Midnight Atmosphere moves inward. This is the most intimate disc: SRV’s “Lenny,” Kelly Joe Phelps’ dusty fingerpicking, Jeff Beck’s sculpted phrasing, Otis Taylor’s hypnotic pulse. The playing is close‑mic’d, tactile, almost private. It’s music built on touch — the kind that rewards quiet rooms and late hours.

CD4: Deep Night Drift brings the journey home. Snowy White, Gary Moore, Robin Trower, and Roy Buchanan offer long, expressive lines that feel like conversations held after midnight. The tempos ease, the tones soften, and the set lands in a place of calm resolve. It’s the final glow before silence, a slow fade into the blue hour.

These four discs form a space the listener can return to again and again, not for spectacle, but for presence. Relaxation Blues gathers performances where feeling is carried in the grain of a voice, the bend of a note, the hush between phrases. It’s a collection that rewards stillness, deepens with familiarity, and lingers long after the last track fades. In these hours of music, the blues becomes a companion for the quieter parts of life, steady, honest, and endlessly human. (B)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Charles Brown - Driftin' Blues 3:11 1945

02 Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone to Love 2:54 1950

03 Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby 3:10 1955

04 Son Seals - Sitting at My Window 4:30 1973

05 Otis Rush - Double Trouble - 1958 2:41 1959

06 Jimmy Reed - Baby, What You Want Me to Do 2:25 1960

07 Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand 3:00 1962

08 B.B. "Blues Boy" King & His Orchestra - Sweet Little Angel 3:14 1957

09 Slim Harpo - Rainin' in My Heart 2:35 1961

10 Freddie King - Same Old Blues 3:58 1971

11 Earl Hooker - Blue Guitar 2:37 1962

12 Memphis Slim - Mother Earth 2:42 1951

13 Buddy Guy - Stone Crazy 7:14 1962

14 Magic Sam - All Your Love 2:55 1957

15 Albert King - I'll Play The Blues for You (Part 1) 3:42 1972

16 T-Bone Walker - Call it Stormy Monday (But Tuesday is Just as Bad) 3:00 1947

17 Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too 3:05 1957

18 Big Walter Horton - Little Boy Blue 3:12 1953

19 Roosevelt Sykes - Driving Wheel 3:06 1936

20 John Lee Hooker - Dimples 4:39 1956

CD2

01 Fleetwood Mac - Albatross 3:12 1968

02 Peter Green - Slabo Day 5:12 1979

03 Robben Ford - 08 - Golden Slumbers 4:56 1970

04 Santana - Samba Pa Ti 4:47 1970

05 Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas 2:53 1985

06 Chain - Blues With A Feeling 4:47 1971

07 Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Driftin' Blues 8:09 1967

08 Lonnie Mack - Why 4:35 1963

09 Dave Hole - Yours for A Song 5:16 1992

10 J. J. Cale - Cloudy Day 5:24 1974

11 Derek & The Dominos - Have You Ever Loved A Woman? 6:54 1970

12 Roomful of Blues - Duke`s Blues 4:21 1979

13 Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets with Sam Myers - Changin' Neighborhoods 6:56 1988

14 Duke Robillard - Who'll Stop The Rain 4:07 1994

15 Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters - Blues for Otis Rush 9:52 1988

16 Roy Buchanan - John's Blues 5:06 1969

17 Chris Rea & Vargas Blues Band - Do you believe in love 5:17 2013

18 Mick Kolassa - Baby's Got Another Lover 7:23 2014

19 Chris Rea - Immigration Blues 5:08 1991

20 Ronnie Earl - Blues for Shawn 6:29 1993

CD3

01 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Lenny 4:57 1983

02 Robert Cray - Right Next Door 4:20 1986

03 Keb' Mo' - Am I Wrong 2:21 1994

04 Smoke Wagon Blues Band - Set Me Free 5:03 2013

05 Kelly Joe Phelps - Rat River 3:34 1997

06 Livin' Blues - Black Night 7:26 1969

07 Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite - Nothing at All 3:37 2013

08 Peter Green - In The Skies 3:47 1979

09 Walter Trout Band - Say Goodbye to The Blues 7:54 1990

10 Eric Clapton - Floating Bridge 6:33 2004

11 Gary Moore - Midnight Blues 5:45 1990

12 Otis Taylor - Blue Rain in Africa 4:14 2001

13 Tab Benoit - Nice and Warm 7:41 1992

14 Magic Slim & The Teardrops - Why Does A Woman Treat A Man So Bad? 3:36 1980

15 Totta Naslund - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 6:32 1975

16 Amos Garrett; Doug Sahm; Gene Taylor; Gene Taylor Band - Teardrops on Your Letter 4:05 1980

17 Harvey Mandel - Midnight Sun 6:19 1968

18 Jeff Beck - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 5:28 1976

19 Eric Johnson - Song for George 1:46 1990

20 Mick Taylor - Spanish A Minor 12:13 1979

CD4

01 Snowy White - Bird of Paradise 4:55 1983

02 Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues 6:09 1990

03 Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs 5:01 1974

04 Boz Scaggs - Loan Me A Dime 12:29 1969

05 Joe Bonamassa - Blues Deluxe 7:20 2003

06 John Lee Hooker - Driftin’ Blues 3:34 1960

07 Arlen Roth - Villanova Junction Blues 4:34 1976

08 Fenton Robinson - Directly From My Heart to You 4:21 1967

09 Johnny Winter - Cheap Tequila 4:09 1973

10 Jeff Beck - Where Were You 3:17 1989

11 Otis Rush - Reap What You Sow 4:55 1956

12 Seasick Steve - Swamp Dog 4:46 2008

13 Jesse 'ed' Davis - Red Dirt Boogie, Brother 3:43 1972

14 Pinetop Perkins - Blues After Hours 5:00 1992

15 Shuggie Otis - 1215 Slow Goonbash Blues 9:27 1974

16 Eddie C. Campbell - King of The Jungle 4:01 1977

17 Bonnie Raitt - I Feel The Same 4:38 1972

18 Albert Collins - Cold Cold Feeling 5:09 1965

19 Skip Mcdonald - Hammerhead 4:36 2004

20 Roy Buchanan - After Hours 6:15 1974

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