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(((This Outstanding, Superb, Wonderfull US Bluesrock, believe me!!)))

Biography by Char Ham:
Musical visionaries in their lifetime are often criticized for blasphemously blending musical styles. Such was the case with Lester Butler. His last album, 13, melded the roots of American music, blues and alternative rock. Yet Butler could also get down and blow some hardcore blues, backing luminaries Billy Boy Arnold, King Ernest and Finis Tasby.

His first band, the Red Devils, received the attention of producer Rick Rubin (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mick Jagger, Tom Petty) while playing their favorite haunt, the King King. With Rubin, they released their only album, which was named after that haunt. Their sound attracted the likes of Jagger, who took them into the studio, but the tracks were never used for Jagger's album Wandering Spirit.

Alex Schultz, fresh from Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers, teamed with Butler to form 13. Though abhorred by blues purists, the group broke ground, especially in Europe where they drew high praise from rock bands, who in turn gave 13 opening slots for their shows. 13 was a step away from stardom when Butler died unexpectedly at age 38.



King King:

Reviewer: Byron Crump "merc50" (Flower Mound, Texas USA)

I bought this because I had remembered the Red Devils off the "LA Rockabilly" record that had come out in the 80's. That version of the band did rockabilly and had a female singer. The bass player in that band was Jonny Ray Bartel who would go on to play in the Knitters. When this record hit the stores I picked it up because of the name of the band and saw that Bartel was involved and decided to give it a try. I really did not know what to expect and was surprised it was a live blues record, and a damn fine one at that. This is tuff blues, not boohoo stuff. It is rough and edgy and it really is a shame this is all they really ever did. I wish more blues bands would take this road and not the keep doing the same old thing. This is a kick in the pants hard driving record that more people need to hear.

1. Automatic
2. Goin' to the Church
3. She's Dangerous
4. I Wish You Would
5. Cross My Heart
6. Tail Dragger
7. Devil Woman
8. No Fightin'
9. Mr. Highway Man
10. I'm Ready
11. Quarter to Twelve
12. Better Cut That Out


13 featuring Lester Butler:

From the opening harp honk of "So Low Down," and one is immediately struck by the fact that this is one dirty-sounding, forward-looking blues album, entering into territories usually unexplored by the pleated pants and berets hardliners intent on regurgitating their own record collections. There is not one slickly played, sung, or produced note to be found anywhere on this disc, making it stand out from the rest of the pack right from the beginning. Harmonica man/vocalist Lester Butler's songwriting pen comes up with nine of the 13 tracks on this disc, and all of them are every bit as finely wrought as the classics covered elsewhere on the album. With burning, solid guitar work from Alex Shultz, Paul Bryant, and someone named Smokey Hormel, a trio of revolving bassists and a pair of revolving drummers (Tom Levy, James Moore, and James Intveld doing the plunking with Steven Hodges and Johnny Morgan doing the skin-beating) and Andy Kaulkin on piano, this is one lowdown, lo-fi sounding ("grungy" would not be too descriptive a phrase here) album that immediately sucks you in with its sheer honesty alone. Even hackneyed titles like Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning," Elmore James' "So Mean To Me," and Doctor Ross' "The Boogie Disease" sound reasonably fresh here, no mean accomplishment for anybody. Although Butler overdubs his vocals on this session, thus utilizing his harp lines as a member of the band rather than the traditional vocal-harp fill-vocal method used in a true "live" recording, things sound so alarmingly natural, it's a very minor, niggling point at best. Is this the greatest White juke joint record ever made? Belly up to the bar, turn up the volume and you'll sure find out; it's a hard one to ignore. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide

1 So Low Down (3:32)
2 HNC (2:26)
3 Sweet Tooth (4:21)
4 Black Hearted Woman (4:40)
5 Close to You (3:01)
6 Smokestack Lightning (3:51)
7 Pray for Me (3:07)
8 So Mean to Me (3:10)
9 Way Down South (3:36)
10 Boogie Disease (1:41)
11 Plague of Madness (3:23)
12 Down in the Alley (1:02)
13 Baby Please Don't Go (3:36)


The Red Devils - Live At The Borderline London 1993 (Bootleg) (@320)

01 - Automatic
02 - Your Turn to Cry
03 - Cross My Heart
04 - She's Dangerous
05 - Scuttle Buttin'
06 - Commit A Crime
07 - Backstreet Crawler
08 - Blackwater Roll
09 - Who Do You Love
10 - I Wish You Would


The Red Devils - Moulin Blues Ospel, NL 1993 (@320) (Bootleg)

01 - Dynamite
02 - Time To Cry
03 - Dedication
04 - Instrumental
05 - Going Down In Louisiana
06 - She's Dangerous
07 - Black Water Roll
08 - Checkin' Up On My Baby
09 - So Low Down
10 - In The Night Time
11 - Close To You
12 - Smoke Stack Lightning
13 - Boogie Disease


The Red Devils - Sessions & Live 1993-97 (@320) (Bootleg)

01 - Going To The Church
02 - Like A Water Rolls
03 - She's Dynamite
04 - Backstreet Crawl
05 - The Hook
06 - Your Time To Cry
07 - Louisiana Blues
08 - Time To Cry
09 - I Wish You Would
10 - She's Dangerous
11 - Cross Your Heart
12 - Going To The Church
13 - Automatic







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