Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield ( born December 17, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois; † 4 May 1987 in Hollywood ) was an American blues musician. He is considered one of the best and most influential white harmonica player.

Work

Butterfield Blues Harp played and collaborated with the black blues greats Muddy Waters, Howlin 'Wolf, Little Walter and James Cotton.

By 1965 he had founded Butterfield Blues Band, who was, inter alia, Mike Bloomfield, he became the leading artist of the white Chicago blues. With the use of electric instruments the band made ​​in the same year at the Newport Folk Festival for a scandal and shocked the followers of traditional folk. Parts of the Butterfield Blues Band played as a backing band when Bob Dylan's appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, Dylan because Bloomfield had also supported for the recording of " Like a Rolling Stone".

The Butterfield Blues Band, among others, took in 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival and 1969 at the Woodstock Festival in part.

Butterfield played not only the traditional blues, he also used elements of other genres such as jazz or Asian sounds. In 1972, named the Butterfield Blues Band, the Blues no longer played only in Better Days by.

Butterfield, who now lived in Woodstock, got together with Mike Bloomfield and musicians from the Woodstock scene under the name Fathers And Sons to a vision of shared disk recording together.

After the dissolution of Better Days Butterfield fell more and more alcohol.

In 1976 he played on the farewell concert The Last Waltz by The Band.

15-16. September 1978, he played with his band in the 3rd Rockpalast night of the WDR in the Grugahalle food. The concert was broadcast live across Europe in parallel in radio and television.

In 1986, he moved to Los Angeles. Three weeks after his last appearance with BB King, Albert King and Eric Clapton in Los Angeles, died of alcohol-and drug-addicted musician on 4 May 1987.

2006 Paul Butterfield was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

Discography

Albums

DVD

  • Paul Butterfield Band - Rockpalast: The DVD Collection - Blues Rock Legends Vol 2 (1978 )
  • The Band / Paul Butterfield Last Waltz (1978 )
  • Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues (2003) Paul Butterfield / Corey Harris / Skip James / JB Lenoir / Ma Rainey / Johnny Shines

Guest appearances

  • John Mayall Hard Road (1967 )
  • Muddy Waters Fathers And Sons (1969 )
  • Bonnie Raitt Give It Up (1972 )
  • Muddy Waters Muddy & The Wolf ( 1974)
  • Maria Muldaur Waitress In A Donut Shop (1974 )
  • Muddy Waters Woodstock Album ( 1975)
  • Bonnie Raitt Glow (1979 )
  • Foghat Zig Zag Walk ( 1983) Remastered
  • Little Mike & The Tornadoes Heart Attack (1990 )
  • Muddy Waters Chess Box ( 1990)
  • Mike Bloomfield Do not Say That I Is not Your Man: Essential Blues 1964-1969 (1994 )
  • Muddy Waters Anthology: 1947-1972 (2001)
  • John Mayall As It All Began: The Best Of John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers 1964-1969 (1998)
  • Hoyt Axton Rustyold Halo / Where Did The Money Go ( 1998)
  • Hoyt Axton Gotta Keep Rollin ': The Jeremiah Years 1979-1981 (1999)
  • The Band Last Waltz (2002) Box Set
  • Rough Guide To Chicago Blues ( 2003)
  • Come To The Mountain: Old Time Music For Modern Times (2005)
  • Rick Danko Cryin 'Heart Blues ( 2005)
  • James Cotton V-8 Ford Blues ( 2005)
  • Ivan Le Meilleur Rebroff (2007)
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan Solos, Sessions & Encores (2007)
  • Levon Helm Levon Helm & The Rco All-Stars/American Son (2008)
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