The Paul Butterfield Blues Band bridged blues and rock in a new ... work or songwriting to a couple of their seminal early albums, and for decades to come he played consistently with their ...

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 ...

Stanley also cites The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, whose lead guitarist, Michael Bloomfield, is one of the all-time greats. A criminally underrated guitar player, Bloomfield could take one guitar and ...

As a teen, Williamson played blues after hearing Paul Butterfield’s first album ... which later became the Ale ‘n Bun. There Pino led a band that featured pianist David Maxwell and guitarist Bob ...

After 19 albums, countless awards and 55 years of spreading the blues around the world on tour, the time has come for The Legendary Downchild Blues Band to say farewell to ... Etta James, Paul Simon, ...

‘Astral Weeks’’s place at the de facto pinnacle of the Van Morrison discography simply isn’t rational (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images) When a celebrated band is on a golden tear, nobody ...

Sanborn later traveled to California and met Paul Butterfield in 1965. After relocating to the Bay Area, he joined the Butterfield Blues Band ... gap between the two previous albums but was a funkier, ...

The best psychedelic albums, both sonically and spiritually, are guaranteed to take your head to places it never went before. Look up the word “psychedelic” in the dictionary, and one of the ...

Led by Keef, the Stones constructed a double album that haphazardly, and in endearingly louche fashion, touched upon country rock, soul, gospel and blues ... albums — a coming-of-age album both in ...

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The essential records that chart blues music’s epic journey – from its Delta roots through to the masterpiece that launched ...