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At the height of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's success, Mike Bloomfield formed Electric Flag with Nick Gravenites and Bishop began playing lead guitar for The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw ( 1967 in musicSee also 1966 in music, other events of 1967, 1968 in music, 1960s in music and the list of 'years in music' Events January 15 The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show''. At Ed Sullivan's request, the band changed their lyrics from "Let's spend t). The album included David SanbornDavid Sanborn is an American saxophonist, most commonly associated with smooth jazz. He was born on July 30, 1945 in Tampa, Florida. Sanborn has been a highly regarded session player since the mid 1970s, and one of his earliest guest recordings was on Dav, Bugsy Maugh and Phil Wilson , and was a commercial failure that stunted the band's career. The late 1960sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around and early 1970sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Events and trends saw a series of releases to a small and devoted cult following. Paul Butterfield finally died of long-term alcohol abuse 1987.
The dramatic impact on the course of rock & roll by the Butterfield Blues Band with the release of their first album, “The Paul Butterfield Blues Band,” and the song “Born In Chicago,” in particular, cannot be overstated. They introduced young white America to the blues, influenced 100s of bands from the Grateful Dead to the Allman Brothers, motivated Bob Dylan to go “electric” irrevocably changing the course of rock & roll, and launched the reign of Michael Bloomfield as America’s most influential guitarist until the arrival of Eric Clapton in 1967.
It is hard to imagine today, but prior to the summer of 1965, the Beatles’ music (and the rest of the British Invasion) was the stuff of screaming kids. Serious musical aficionados viewed it as “bubblegum.” The music of the “hip,” “in,” college crowd, along with the trend-setting musical elite, was folk music and acoustic protest songs headed up by folk’s king and queen, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. And folk music’s Mecca was the annual Newport Folk Festival.
Paul Butterfield, a white lawyer’s son, grew up in Chicago, developed a love for the blues harmonica, hooked up with white, blues loving, University of Chicago student Elvin Bishop (later of “Fool Around and Fell In Love” fame), and the two started hanging with the great black blues players like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Junior Wells on Chicago’s South Side. Along the way, Butterfield became the world’s greatest blues harmonica player, and started a band made up of both black and white bluesmen. In 1963, a watershed event in introducing blues to white America occurred when Butterfield’s racially mixed band was made the house band at Chicago blues club Big John’s.
At only 16, Michael Bloomfield, a nice Jewish boy from Chicago, had already made a name for himself on the South Side as a blue guitar wunderkind playing with classic blues cats old enough to be his father, men such as Otis Spann and Big Joe Williams. By 20, he had a Columbia record contract, loads of session work, and, in early 1965, an invitation to join the Butterfield Blues Band.
By ’65’s “Bringing It All Back Home,” Dylan had begun to turn his back on folk music. At that summer’s Newport Folk Festival, all the buzz was over the revolutionary performance of the Butterfield Blues Band with Bloomfield on guitar, and their song “Born In Chicago.” It is hard to imagine now, but fiery debate raged over the Butterfield Blues Band invading Newport with electric guitars! Closing the festival, Dylan played the first half acoustic, and then went “electric” backed by Bloomfield and the Butterfield Band. The crowd went nuts, booing Dylan off the stage. He returned acoustic to sing “The Times Are A Changing.” Bloomfield went on to back Dylan on the classic “Highway 61 Revisited” album.
The die was cast. Dylan went electric, embraced rock & roll, and taught everyone from the Beatles to Dave Mathews that lyrics were important. That fall, the release of the album “The Paul Butterfield Blues Band” was a revelation that changed music forever. Along with their second album “East-West,” it taught America the blues, became the genesis of folk rock, psychedelic/acid rock, and anything that rejected 1960’s teen idol pop. Along the way, listening to Michael Bloomfield taught Americans including Duanne Allman, Jerry Garcia, Steve Miller, and Carlos Santana how to play the electric guitar. The influence of the Butterfield Band continues to this day. Though obscured by time, they are uniquely responsible for making the blues something other than a forgotten musical footnote, and Michael Bloomfield stands along with Jimi Hendrix, Duanne Allman, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Brian Setzer, and Eddie Van Halen as America’s greatest rock guitarists.
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