Happy Birthday to Paul Butterfield.
With his band, The Butterfield Blues Band, he, along with guitarist Mike Bloomfield, was instrumental in bringing blues music back into popularity and pretty much introducing it to white people and making it a big part of Rock and Roll and the hippy culture.
Butterfield not only played on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited album but also played at the 1965 Newport Folk and Blues festival backing up Bob Dylan in his famous first eclectic concert. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band released their first album in 1965.
The Butterfield Blues Band Also played at the 1967 Monterey Pop and Woodstock.
Paul would have been 75 today.
The following links are the '65 Newport, '67 Monterey (I believe that it's Elvin Bishop playing guitar in this video. Bloomfield is seen applauding at the end of the video as he was there with his new band The Electric Flag), and Woodstock. And then three of my favorite Butterfield songs:
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