Paul Butterfield
Singer/harmonica player Paul Butterfield and his band were from Chicago and well-schooled in that city's urban blues scene. Their first two albums of modernized Chicago blues not only created a critical stir, but led to large-scale interest in electric blues amongst the then-embryonic hippie generation. Members of the Butterfield band (most notably guitar whiz Mike Bloomfield) also played a key role in rock history by helping Bob Dylan along in his transition to electric music. Butterfield's 1966 album EAST-WEST was strikingly prescient in its incorporation of Eastern modalities. By the mid-'70s he was getting into the post-Woodstock rural vibe with his BETTER DAYS band. Though Butterfield's salad days were far behind him when he passed away in the late-'80s, he had changed both the blues and rock worlds irrevocably.
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Albums
- (2006) North South
- (2006) Put It In Your Ear
Top Tracks
- Just To Be With You
- Slow Down
- Baby Blue
- Ain't No Need To Go No Further
- Walkin' By Myself
Related Artists
- The Animals
- The Yardbirds
- John Mayall
- Canned Heat
- Fleetwood Mac
- Rising Sons
- The Blues Project
- J. Geils Band
- Derek & The Dominos
- John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
- Jimi Hendrix
- Jeff Beck
- The Fabulous Thunderbirds
- Led Zeppelin
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- The Allman Brothers Band
- Big Brother & The Holding Company
- Cream
- Bad Company
- Rolling Stones
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