Artist: The Butts Band
Album: The Complete Recordings
Country: US/UK
Genre: Classic rock, soul, rhythm 'n' blues, reggae
Release: 1996
Quality: FLAC | lossless

The Butts Band featured ex-Doors guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore. In 1975, the band recorded two albums for Blue Thumb which expanded on the music they originally made with the Doors. Complete Recordings includes both of the albums on a single disc, making it a definitive retrospective.

The 1973 debut of Butts Band, produced by Doors engineer turned producer Bruce Botnick, is -- along with Ray Manzarek's 1974 release, The Golden Scarab (also produced by Botnick) -- the true fulfillment of what Other Voices and Full Circle initiated. A release of Golden Scarab and The Butts Band on one CD would be a good companion piece to the aforementioned post-Morrison Doors releases; it's most likely what would have evolved had the Doors' trio given us a third album in the early '70s. Make no mistake, this is very musical and great stuff, it just had no image, introduced us to new personalities, and was saddled with a terrible name (c'mon, the Butts Band? What was Jimmy Castor's line in "Troglodyte"? "Bertha Butt, one of the Butt sisters." It's just plain silly with the world watching the Doors' legacy). Before Robbie Krieger went on his jazz tangent, this folky blues group may have been a necessary diversion.

Tracklist:
1. I Won't Be Alone Anymore - 4:29
2. Baja Bus - 4:40
3. Sweet Danger (Jess Roden) - 4:52
4. Pop-A-Top (Jess Roden, Phillip Chen) - 3:22
5. Be With Me - 4:21
6. New Ways (Jess Roden) - 3:55
7. Love Your Brother - 4:53
8. Kansas City (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 4:06
9. Get Up, Stand Up (Bob Marley) - 3:36
10.Corner Of My Mind - 4:36
11.Caught In The Middle - 3:22
12.Everybody's Fool (Alex Richman) - 2:45
13.Livin' And Dyin' (Lydia Tegret, Robby Krieger) - 3:13
14.Don't Wake Up - 4:13
15.If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody (Rudy Clark) - 4:04
16.Feelin' So Bad (Alex Richman) - 4:18
17.White House (Michael Stull) -   - 4:27
18.Act Of Love - 3:05
19.That's All Right - 3:18
20.Lovin' You For All The Right Reasons - 2:32

Tracks 1-8 from Butts Band   1973
Tracks 9-20 from Hear And Now! 1975

Personnel;
John Densmore - Drums
Robby Krieger - Lead Guitar
Jess Roden - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
Phillip Chen - Bass
Roy Davies - Keyboard, ARP Synthesizer