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 ...
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.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, released in 1965, showcased the singer’s virtuosic ability on the instrument. But while clearly influenced by the Chicago masters, this was resolutely rock music.