Steelyard Blues

Digitally remastered edition of this soundtrack composed by former Electric Flag members Nick Gravenites and, in his first release of any kind in three years, legendary guitarist Mike Bloomfield Bloomfield and Gravenites had previously composed the soundtrack to Roger Corman's notorious b-movie The Trip. The album features performances by a young Maria Muldaur and by former Bloomfield band-mate Paul Butterfield, along with Annie Sampson of Stoneground and Merl Saunders, later to collaborate with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. This soundtrack offers a spirited mixture of blues, rock and country, with stinging guitar licks from Bloomfield. With a killer leading couple of Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland-fresh from their box office triumph co-starring in Klute-you would think that the 1972 film Steelyard Blues would be better known than it is. Alas, the film was one of those only-in-the-early-'70s counter-cultural romps that died at the box office. It has remained a cult classic because of it's soundtrack.