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Butterfield met and occasionally sat in with guitarist Mike Bloomfield

A bone-crunching Beatles-via-Nirvana guitar driven banger

Mostly though he’s the man we know from Fat White Family with gravelly crooning (to especially great effect in Roustabout

It is the first new Kinks ‘best of’ for many years

THE ANIMALS - Animalisms (Reissue) strange-brew 'Scratch's wasLP Standard Edition Black Vinyl (2026 Secret Records Reissue). Animalisms was the third studio album and stands as landmark album that epitomises The Animals' raw, electric energy during a transformative period in music history As one of the defining records of British R&B, it encapsulates the band's powerful essence just before the original line up disbanded Eric Burdon's formidable vocal prowess combined with the band's strong blues and soul