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| Released | 1973 | |||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Label | Blue Thumb | |||
| Producer | Bruce Botnick | |||
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Butts Band is the first album by Butts Band, released in 1974. "Pop-a-Top" was released as a single, with "Baja Bus" on the B side. Band founders Robby Krieger and John Densmore would assemble an entirely new group of musicians for the band's second and final album, 1975's Hear and Now .
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| Allmusic |    |
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Joe Viglione gave the album a rating of three and a half out of five stars. [1] He noted that the album is "very musical and great stuff, it just had no image, introduced us to new personalities." [1]
Both albums by the Butts Band were repackaged together and released in 1996 as One Way label's, "The Complete Recordings". Two studio bonus tracks, "That's All Right" and "Lovin' You For All The Right Reasons", were added to the album.
According to the liner notes. [2]
Additional musicians
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