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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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