Tracklist

1	Swing With It	2:50
2	Brand New Family	3:25
3	Woman's Love	2:25
4	Make The Headlines	1:52
5	Georgia Blues	2:08
6	My Bag (The Oysters)	3:15
7	Common Ground	2:20
8	Being Different	2:44
9	I've Been Searching	1:55
10	Do I Care	3:07
11	Lonesome Star Blues	4:17
12	Here I Come (There She Goes)	2:17
13	If You Cared	2:24
14	Theme From Steelyard Blues (Drive Again)	2:34

Credits

• Bass – John Kahn
• Drums – Christopher Parker*
• Liner Notes – ピーター・バラカン*
• Organ, Piano – Merle Saunders*
• Vocals – Annie Sampson (tracks: A7, B6)
• Vocals, Guitar – Mike Bloomfield, Nick Gravenites
• Vocals, Guitar, Handclaps – Maria Muldaur
• Vocals, Harmonica – Paul Butterfield

Notes

Japanese CD release with OBI strip.

“Steelyard Blues” is a 1973 anarchic comedy crime film starring Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda and Peter Boyle. It concerns the lives of a group of misfits trying to find a happier life against the norms of society. Sutherland plays an ex-con with a passion for demolition derbies. He has wrecked almost every possible car, but violates his parole when confronted by a 1950 Studebaker. This embarrasses his brother, Howard Hesseman, in an unlikely respectable role. Fonda plays a prostitute with an off-on relationship with Sutherland’s character. The film is notable for reprising the Fonda-Sutherland pairing of Klute. The gang tries to get an old PBY flying, and much humor ensues.
The film´s psychedelic utopianism failed to find an audience, however, and it died on release.
The tremendous soundtrack album to director Alan Myerson’s film “Steelyard Blues” feels like a side project collaboration between the Electric Flag and Paul Butterfield Blues Band with added performances by Maria Muldaur and Merl Saunders. The majority of the material is written and performed by the great Nick Gravenites and Mike Bloomfield, the 14 songs really standing up on their own as a work not dependent on the film and not feeling like they are mere chess pieces to supplement a Hollywood flick. Gravenites does a masterful job of producing, with “Common Ground” resembling a great lost Electric Flag song – Annie Sampson trading off on the vocals with Gravenites as Janis Joplin did with him on “In Concert”. Muldaur co-wrote “Georgia Blues” with Bloomfield and Gravenites, while they gave Muldaur and Saunders the opportunity to contribute a tune by including their “Do I Care.” “My Bag (The Oysters)” adds some pop/doo wop to the affair, a nice twist, and it borders on parody. Gravenites is always able to juggle his serious side with a tongue-in-cheek wink, and this interesting and enjoyable effort deserved much wider play.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 4 943674 016839

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
BS 2662	Nick Gravenites And Mike Bloomfield Featuring Paul Butterfield And Maria Muldaur	Nick Gravenites And Mike Bloomfield Featuring Paul Butterfield And Maria Muldaur - Steel Yard Blues: Original Sound Track From The Motion Picture ‎(LP, Album)	Warner Bros. Records	BS 2662	US	1972
BS 2662	Nick Gravenites And Mike Bloomfield	Nick Gravenites And Mike Bloomfield - Steel Yard Blues Original Sound Track From The Motion Picture ‎(LP, Promo)	Warner Bros. Records	BS 2662	US	1972
0362	Nick Gravenites And Mike Bloomfield Featuring Paul Butterfield And Maria Muldaur	Nick Gravenites And Mike Bloomfield Featuring Paul Butterfield And Maria Muldaur - Steel Yard Blues: Original Sound Track From The Motion Picture ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Real Gone Music	0362	US	Unknown
WBC 1191	Nick Gravenites And Mike Bloomfield Featuring Paul Butterfield And Maria Muldaur	Nick Gravenites And Mike Bloomfield Featuring Paul Butterfield And Maria Muldaur - Steel Yard Blues: Original Sound Track From The Motion Picture ‎(LP, Album)	Warner Bros. Records	WBC 1191	US	1972

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