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The Butterfield Blues Band – The Resurrection Of Pigboy Crabshaw
The ’67 departure of BB Band axe dude Bloomfield gave fellow Windy City man Elvin Bishop the chance to revamp Paul Butterfield’s seminal blues entity. Where Bloomfield had been rooted in South ...
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Nick Gravenites deserves the same shine as his rock-star friends
A few years later, when Butterfield and Bishop started the groundbreaking Paul Butterfield Blues Band, they recruited Waters’s drummer at the time, Sam Lay, even before bringing Bloomfield aboard.
Nick Gravenites Dies: Chicago Bluesman Who Cofounded The Electric Flag, Wrote Songs For Janis Joplin And Produced 1971 Hit "One Toke Over The Line" Was 85
His best-known song, “Born In Chicago,” was the opening track on the 1965 self-titled debut album by the Paul Butterfield ...
Influential blues-rock singer, songwriter for Janis Joplin dies
Gravenites also achieved success as a songwriter, having authored “Born in Chiago” and “East West” for The Paul Butterfield ...