779 Paul Butterfield Blues Band “Born in Chicago” 1965

“Michael Bernard Bloomfield was born on July 28, 1943, as the son of affluent Jewish parents and grew up in Gencoe, a suburb of Chicago. After receiving a transistor radio for his bar mitzvah, he listened to rockabilly and the blues on southern radio stations and eventually began to join African American blues musicians on Chicago’s South Side on stage where the audience received the white blues guitarist as a novelty act” (Ulrich Adelt, Blues Music in the Sixties: A Story in Black and White, 2010). 

Paul Butterfield Blues Band “Born in Chicago”