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Arguably, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band's most celebrated live performance ever came at Woodstock in 1969. The band was one of the last to play at 6 a.m. that Monday morning, August 18.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band came roaring out of a residency at Big John’s, ... “I just started playing it differently than most harp players played it,” he once said.
'Pigboy' would serve as the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's commercial high point, peaking at a middling No. 52 on the Billboard chart, and it was followed by a flurry of personnel changes ...
Stumbling across the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album at Hayes Music in Ukiah forever changed the lives of Pat and Robben Ford, two teenagers growing up far from blues clubs and big-city ...
In 1963, Butterfield formed the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, hiring drummer Sam Lay and bassist Jerome Arnold away from Howlin’ Wolf’s Band. ... such as playing on a B.B. King TV special.
Even for those who know his best work, from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band to his overlooked 1970s group Better Days, Horn From the Heart is an enlightening look at an under-documented musician ...
Zac Brown and Tom Morello performed a tribute to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. ... dueling guitars and top-notch harmonica playing.
While the white British musicians learned to play the blues mostly by studying records, the American Paul Butterfield was a pupil — and soon enough, a rival — of the Chicago masters themselves.
Real Gone Music's release of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band's Live 1966 is a godsend for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it reminds, if that's indeed necessary, of what a vital ...
Slim Kings, Howlin’ Brothers among other performers that will play in the area this weekend. East West Blues Band will play a tribute to The Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Haunt on June 12.
Barry Goldberg, a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in the 1960s, including the notorious 1965 Newport Folk Festival concert ...
Gabriel Butterfield, the eldest son of Chicago harmonica great Paul Butterfield, joins his five-piece band to honor the iconic songs of his father at The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, on Saturda… ...