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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was an American blues rock band from Chicago, Illinois. Formed in the summer of 1963, the group originally featured eponymous vocalist and harmonicist Paul Butterfield, guitarist Elvin Bishop, bassist Jerome Arnold and drummer Sam Lay. [1]
How a Rule-Breaker Changed Harmonica Forever. It is said that good things come to those who wait, an optimistic phrase demanding patience, often in the face of hard times, and doubt. Though many would argue that Paul Butterfield was a game changer, innovator and rule-breaker, taking the harmonica and the blues to a whole new level, there was ...
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band rocketed the blues straight into the stratosphere. One of the first integrated blues bands with mass appeal, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band inspired people of all kinds to sing the blues. They pounced on the music and took no prisoners.
Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story is a feature-length Paul Butterfield documentary about the life and career of legendary blues musician Paul Butterfield.
Iconoclastic Chicago harmonica player whose storming blues band produced seminal work that drew on rock, psychedelia, jazz, and Indian classical. Read Full Biography.
His storming sound was a major catalyst in bringing electric Chicago blues to white audiences”. This is the story of one man, a harmonica and the blues. Find out about the author. This website is about Paul Butterfield, his several bands, and their music.
Paul Butterfield ranks among the most influential harp players in the Blues. Born in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, he began playing classical flute as a child. He also grew up listening to his father’s Jazz records and in 1957 he and future band mate Nick Gravenites began to catch Blues acts in the clubs of the South Side.
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