Sunday, June 24, 2007

Son House, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, & Mike Bloomfield



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Son House and Bloomfield - whiskey and speed - casualties of the 60's lifestyle - Wolf had good words to say in his documentary I'm paraphrasing: "you done had a chance to do something with your life, now all you want is some whiskey"

So sad and so true, it almost gives me the blues.


3 comments:

mister anchovy said...

I liked Bloomfield's work on Highway 61 revisited, and I liked the record with the curious title Supersession quite a bit that featured Bloomfield with Al Kooper and Stephen Stills...I think that one came out in 68. It seems to me that he died from a heroin overdose.

By the way, I think linking to stuff on youtube is fine.

fitzgerald said...

I did not discover Paul Butterfield or Mike Bloomfield until much later in my appriciation of the blues. But I think they both were great blues men. Bloomfield's death (God bless his soul) was the loss of a bluesman of the first order.

Stan Denski said...

If you want some additional essential Mike Bloomfield get "A Long Time Comin'" the first (and only) Electric Flag album, Bloomer's first post Butterfield project. A wonderful and very varried record that features some of his best playing. Al Kooper has been helping with a a Bloomfield box set that I hope will see the light of day sometime. That Davind Crosby and Mike Love are IN the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Michael isn't is all the proof we need that there is no God.