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  Blues Harp CDs- Butterfield, Cotton, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sonny Terry
McCoy, Charlie- "Harpin' The Blues"- The godfather of country and bluegrass harmonica.
The English studio band is sympathetic, especially pianist Bob Hall." The songs on this album have been "keyed" for you in the CDs: Song Keys section at Harmonica Lessons.com.
Paul Butterfield plays some of his best blues harmonica here on some classic Muddy Waters songs.
www.harmonicastore.com /cds_blues.shtml   (1875 words)

  
 Blues With A Feeling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Many white blues musicians of my generation have told me variations of this story, how once they heard the Butterfield Band, things were never the same inside their heads.
Blues music was to them the music of sharecroppers exploited by rich white landowners, fieldhands who picked cotton all day in the burning sun, and none typified the blues quite so much as Mississippi John Hurt, the gentle, soft-spoken singer with parchment skin and sad eyes, who had entertained the crowd earlier in the day.
Dylan's electric band that evening was made up of Butterfield's sidemen, and as a result, in the hagiography of American superstars the Butterfield Band is accorded the status of a footnote on a footnote, sidemen at the birth of folk rock.
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 Paul Butterfield-A Biographical Note by Glenn Weiser
This is the bio note on Paul Butterfield from my harmonica transcription/instruction book Masters of Blues Harp, which has a transcription of The Work Song from East-West (Elektra).
Paul Butterfield, one of the first blues harp players to cross over to rock, was born in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, and began playing classical flute as a child.
Fronted by Butterfield’s strong vocals and harp and augmented by Bloomfield’s searing guitar, the band landed a deal for their first LP with Electra in 1965, and also backed Bob Dylan when the folk hero famously defected to rock at the Newport Folk festival that year.
www.celticguitarmusic.com /harmbutterfield.htm   (376 words)

  
 Salon | Sharps and Flats: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Butterfield Blues Band was born in Chicago and cultivated its own guitar hero, Mike Bloomfield, who also breathed fire on Bob Dylan's electrical breakthrough, "Highway 61 Revisited." Both Butterfield and Mayall sang and played harmonica, with Butterfield the stronger on both counts.
Butterfield and Bloomfield joined Waters to record 1969's "Fathers and Sons," and it was that two-disc set that introduced rock fans like me to the greatest of all Chicago blues singers.
Butterfield and Bloomfield both died sad deaths fueled by drink and drugs, but in the fire of their youth, they taught us a lot with their brotherhood born of the blues.
www.salon.com /music/sharps/1998/02/17sharps.html   (592 words)

  
 The BluesHarp Page:Legends:Paul Butterfield
Butterfield took music lessons (flute) from an early age and by the time he reached high school, was studying with the first-chair flautist of the Chicago Symphony.
The effect of the Butterfield Blues Band on aspiring White blues musicians was enormous and the impact of the band on live audiences was stunning.
Butterfield and the six members of the original Paul Butterfield Blues Band made a huge contribution to modern music, turning a whole generation of White music lovers onto the blues as something other than a quaint piece of music history.
www.bluesharp.ca /legends/pbfield.html   (2053 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Paul Butterfield Blues Band//East West: Music: Paul Blues Band Butterfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Paul Butterfield's 1965 debut album, recorded with Howlin' Wolf's former drummer Sam Lay and guitarists Mike Bloomfield (slide and no slide) and Elvin Bishop (no slide), is a thoroughly authentic blues album, one that avoids the pitfalls that many aspiring white blues combos didn't.
Bloomfield's and Butterfield's playing is sublime, and there are a few of fine original songs here as well, the soulful, Elmore James-like "Our Love Is Drifting" and Chicago guitarist Nick Gravenite's excellent "Born In Chicago" in particular.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band didn't knock Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf off the blues throne, but their brand of blues were much more muscular and more authentic sounding than almost all of their contemporaries, and a little more palatable for inexperiences blues listeners than the real deal.
www.amazon.ca /Paul-Butterfield-Blues-Band-West/dp/B00005OKOW   (504 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Music: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Both bands were led by harmonica-blowing vocalists; both featured ascending guitar gods--Eric Clapton with Mayall and Mike Bloomfield with Butterfield.
Butterfield's ensemble, however, came of age closer to the roots of the music.
The rhythm section heard on the group's 1965 debut was hired away from Howlin' Wolf, and Butterfield, while still in his early 20s when the album shipped, was already a familiar face on the Windy City's club circuit.
www.amazon.com /Paul-Butterfield-Blues-Band/dp/B000002GZ1   (257 words)

  
 Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Song Listings
Even after his death, Paul Butterfield's music didn't receive the accolades that were so deserved.
His debut album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, saw him teaming up with guitarists Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield, with Jerome Arnold on bass, Sam Lay on drums, and Mark Naftalin playing organ.
In front of all these instruments is Butterfield's harmonica, beautifully dictating a mood and a genuine feel that is no longer existent, even in today's blues music.
www.mp3.com /albums/2530/summary.html   (495 words)

  
 THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In the annals of American blues music history, circa the Sixties, harmonica player Paul Butterfield and guitarist Michael Bloomfield were two of the giants.
Butterfield and Bloomfield, among others, literally turned white America onto the electric, Chicago-based blues of Muddy Waters, Little Walter, B.B. King and many others, paving the way for those titans to claim just a little of their richly-deserved legacy.
It was not until the second Butterfield album, "East West," that the band developed its own sound, even straying a bit from the traditional sound of basic electric blues.
www.swaves.com /Back_Issues/Feb03/THE_PAUL_BUTTERFIELD_BLUES_BAND.html   (320 words)

  
 ttgapers store - USA - Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Product Details :: ttgapers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Both bands were led by harmonica-blowing vocalists; both featured ascending guitar gods--Eric Clapton with Mayall and Mike Bloomfield with Butterfield.
Butterfield's ensemble, however, came of age closer to the roots of the music.
Around January 66, Butterfield and his band and the newly formed Jefferson Airplane were the entertainment for a student dance on campus.
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 CDs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The components of what Butterfield was doing to extend the blues, and to meld it with other musics, would have been familiar to the dozens of musicians who flocked to the band's shows after it left Chicago, from New York to Detroit to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
In this respect, every great bluesman or blues combo redefines the idiom in his or their own terms--by playing with what the cliche calls "soul." "East-West" is the climactic expression of the Butterfield Band's redefinition of the blues, and it is a magnificently soulful piece of music.
That effect happened so often, in so many ways, that Butterfield and his band acquired the same sort of style-setting status among the growing white blues (and rock) audience as Muddy once had, in his world, when southern fl migrants to the cities were defining the music.
www.bluespower.com /cds.htm   (4431 words)

  
 Paul Butterfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Butterfield was still underage, (as was Mike Bloomfield, who was already working there in his own band).
The album showed that Butterfield was moving to another musical direction, what with the horn section and a soulful, RandB-influenced groove.
The dramatic impact on the course of rock and roll by the Butterfield Blues Band with the release of their first album, “The Paul Butterfield Blues Band,” and the song “Born In Chicago,” in particular, was pivotal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Butterfield_Blues_Band   (851 words)

  
 Blues Access: Paul Butterfield
Butterfield was not alone -- Woodstock was becoming a town of solo artists (and solo wannabes), each often working on each other's projects, but there were few groups living there, the Band a significant exception.
Butterfield's vocal is mild and restrained, and the guitars and organ seem to come together to crescendo with and envelop his closing harp attack.
Butterfield had taken the blues in another direction -- this time with an eye toward songwriting, exposing the range of blues-as-song from writers of different locales and different eras, highlighting the great writing of Barron and Charles.
www.bluesaccess.com /No_29/butter.html   (4720 words)

  
 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The other “star” in the band was lead guitarist Michael Bloomfield, who rivaled Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck as the guitarist of the mid-'60s.
It wasn’t a huge surprise, really; he and Butterfield were never pals, and theirs was always an uneasy alliance based strictly on their shared love of the music they made together and the mutual respect they had for one another’s abilities.
The majority of these tracks were recorded in 1964 for what was supposed to be Paul Butterfield's first solo LP, but the album was shelved as the band soon went on to record the more accomplished The Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
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 Chrome Oxide - Music Collectors pages - Paul Butterfield Blues Band - 05/31/2007
For those who like later versions of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Rhino Hand Made recently released, as a limited edition, with bonus tracks, the live album recorded at the Troubadour, in Los Angeles, in March 1970.
During the time when they were a blues band, Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop created a reputation for the band and themselves with their skillful guitar playing.
The blues style is my favorite portion of Paul Butterfield's career, and it seems to me that there are some record labels that agree as well.
www.chromeoxide.com /butter.htm   (2450 words)

  
 Paul Butterfield - Paul Butterfield Blues Harmonica
Paul Butterfield I remember such a moment with stark clarity.
Paul Butterfield - Blues Harmonica Master Class Book/CD Pack.
Blues With A Feeling, Biography of Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Charles Sawyer, Winter, 1994.
www.bluesforpeace.com /paul-butterfield.htm   (4642 words)

  
 Paul Butterfield Blues Band for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2007 Petition
The late Paul Butterfield was world-wide renowned as the legendary blues harmonica player that was pinnacle in the blues revival of the sixties.
Paul Butterfield and his band (The Paul Butterfield Blues Band) backed Bob Dylan in the controversial performance at the Newport Festival in 1965 when Bob Dylan “plugged in” and folk purists hit the ceiling.
Paul Butterfield had an incredible impact on music history making and made it possible for many of our famed present day performers to be where they are today.
www.petitiononline.com /pb17d42/petition.html   (1289 words)

  
 Strawberry Jam - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Song Listings
These nine cuts are from various live performances of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band during their heyday in the middle-to-late '60s.
It is the music that is in focus here -- a window into that incredible band at a time when they were hot.
Those of us who were on the scene at the time know that, although the original Butterfield albums are great, the band was a total knockout when heard live.
www.mp3.com /albums/185701/summary.html   (411 words)

  
 Paul Butterfield Blues Band | Ourmedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
I heard the Paul Butterfield Blues Band "live" at Fillmore West in San Francisco.
"The Paul Butterfield Blues Band signed with Elektra Records after adding Michael Bloomfield as lead guitarist," a source said.
Paul Butterfield hooked up with John Mayall in 1967 -- but that's another story.
www.ourmedia.org /node/254472   (316 words)

  
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A Touch Of The Blues by Tom Mazzolini (interview with Francis Clay)
Blues Is Truth by Styve Homnick (Brownie McGhee euology)
Percy Mayfield -- Poet Laureate Of The Blues  
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 Amazon.fr : Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Musique: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Paul Butterfield fut le premier bluesman blanc à avoir fait découvrir ce style à l'Amérique.
Genres > Country - Blues - Folk > Blues > Artistes de A à Z > B > Blues Band, The
Genres > Country - Blues - Folk > Blues > Artistes de A à Z > B > Butterfield, Paul
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 Tower Records - East-West - Paul Butterfield Blues Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Paul Butterfield (vocals, harmonica); Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop (guitar); Mark Naftalin (piano, organ); Jerome Arnold (bass); Billy Davenport (drums).
The Butterfield Blues Band's 1965 debut was a life-changing experience for a generation of young blues players; this follow-up, while not quite as epochal, can still be credited with influencing just about every underground band then percolating in San Francisco.
In fact, the album's title track is an epic 13-minute modal jam that is an obvious template for what the Airplane, the Dead, Quicksilver, and the rest would be doing a year later.
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 Discografía. CD / DVD sobre armónica. Guía para la armónica diatónica de diez celdas o de blues. The Ten Hole ...
Guía para la armónica diatónica de diez celdas o de blues.
The Ten Hole Diatonic Harmonica or Blues Harmonica Reference Guide.
Guía para la armónica diatónica de diez celdas o armónica de blues
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 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - AOL Music
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was signed to Elektra Records after adding Michael...
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 Born In Chicago Lyrics - Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Born In Chicago Lyrics - Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Well, my blues are alright if there's someone left to play the game
Well my rules are alright if there's someone left to play the game.
www.bluesforpeace.com /lyrics/born-chicago.htm   (171 words)

  
 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Butterfield Blues Band is a 1965 album by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 476 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
"Blues With a Feeling" (Little Walter) – 4:20
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 Harry's Blues Lyrics Online, The Butterfield Blues Band, page 1
When days are blue that's a part of it too
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Elektra 7294-2 or 7559-60547-2)
I was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty-one
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 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Another article from Blues Access - Paul Butterfield - Building a New Tradition by Tom Ellis III
Another article from Blues Access - Paul Butterfield - From Newport to Woodstock by Tom Ellis III
Sharps and Flats - Article on the Paul Butterfield Blues Band
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