258: RFR Rewind: The Blues of Michael Bloomfield & Paul Butterfield | A Match and Gasoline

Born in Chicago: The Blues of Michael Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, is book signing, film clip viewing and panel discussion on the lives and artistry of guitarist Michael Bloomfield and harmonica player Paul Butterfield. From the late 1950s when, as teenagers, Bloomfield and Butterfield ventured into the black blues clubs on the South Side of Chicago to play with masters like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, both men were dedicated to the blues. With the formation of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band featuring the leader's brilliant harp work and Bloomfield's searing guitar sorties in the mid-1960s, the sound of raw, muscular electric blues reached a vast new audience and created a blues-rock revolution in American popular music. The induction of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 recognized the game-changing music of these two Chicago innovators and their bandmates, Sam Lay, Jerome Arnold and Mark Naftalin. full episode here: https://open.spotify.com/show/61e24ZD5A3oBTxO36WHQXq?si=f29ae4137af0485a