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Butterfield sticks closely to the Chicago South Side style, but is generally very versatile and imaginative in handling many different types of blues.
It was an exciting time because so many people were starting to get into the blues, discovering it through bands like the Yardbirds and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and I was meeting a lot of ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Original 1983 lineup of the Tom Evans Blues Band. Tom Evans Blues Band present and longtime lineup: Standing, Tom Evans. Sitrting from left: Joe Ficaretta, Michelle Maddalla and Mark Shalonis. Dan ...
Gravenites is best known for writing “Born in Chicago,” the opening song on the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album in 1965, which exposed White rock and pop audiences to Black electric blues.
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.
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 ...