“Living in Chicago, Bloomfield was able to hear Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and other blues giants live. Briefly a rock-band guitarist, he worked as a folk-club manager and played his earliest acoustic gigs with fellow white blues fans Nick Gravenites (vocals) and Charley Musselwhite (harmonica). In 1965 he joined Paul Butterfield's Blues Band. The band’s earliest recordings, released on the Elektra sampler What’s Shakin’? (1965), were some of Bloomfield’s finest, with his solos like lightning flashes illuminating the songs” (Phil Hardy, The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001).
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band “East West”
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