This article originally appeared in Issue 6 of Crawdaddy on October 20, 1966. Ever since Newport of a year ago, the Butterfield Band has been happening. Their first album was received with almost ...

An unsung blues great talks influences, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and crossing over into jazz. Alan Paul. Sat, May 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC. 4 min read.

He cowrote the Butterfield Blues Band’s “East-West,” an Eastern-tinged journey around the musical world that appeared on their 1966 album of the same name.

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 ...

Barry Goldberg, a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in the 1960s, including the notorious 1965 Newport Folk Festival concert ...

Barry Goldberg, a Paul Butterfield Blues Band member who backed Bog Dylan at Newport '65, and later recorded an album produced by Dylan, died at 83.

A quintessential hit of the mid-1970s kind of happened by accident. Elvin Bishop, a gutsy and eloquent guitarist formerly with ‘60s standouts Paul Butterfield Blues Band, was at Miami’s ...

Late in 1965, Warren filled in for drummer Sam Lay (formerly with Muddy Waters) in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Lay had come down with bronchitis on an east-coast tour and had to be hospitalized.

Barry Goldberg, a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in the 1960s, including the notorious 1965 Newport Folk Festival concert ...