Mike Bloomfield
b. Michael Bernard Bloomfield, 28 July 1943, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 15 February 1981, San Francisco, California, USA. For many, both critics and fans, Bloomfield was the finest white blues guitarist America has so far produced. Although signed to Columbia Records in 1964 as the Group (with Charlie Musslewhite and Nick Gravenites), it was his emergence in 1965 as the young, shy guitarist in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band that brought him to public attention. He astonished those viewers who had watched black blues guitarists spend a lifetime trying, but failing, to play with as much fluidity and feeling as Bloomfield. That same year he was an important part of musical history, when folk purists accused Bob Dylan of committing artistic suicide at the Newport Folk Festival. Bloomfield was his lead electric guitarist at that event, and again on Dylan's 60s masterpiece Highway 61 Revisited.
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Albums
- (1998) Live At The Old Waldorf
Top Tracks
- Buried Alive In The Blues
- The Sky Is Cryin'
- Bad Luck Baby
- Farther Up The Road
- Feel So Bad
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