Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero

“A riveting tale of a restless spirit.” —Rolling Stone

He was a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which inspired a generation of white blues players; he played with Bob Dylan in the mid-1960s, when his guitar was a central component of Dylan’s new rock sound on “Like a Rolling Stone” and at his earthshaking 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance. A very limited edition of a book of this title was first published in 1983, but it has here been so thoroughly revised and expanded that it is essentially a brand-new publication. He then founded the Electric Flag, recorded Super Session with Al Kooper, backed Janis Joplin, and released at least twenty other albums, despite debilitating substance abuse. B. This is the definitive biography of the legendary guitarist whom eminent figures like Muddy Waters and B. Bloomfield was one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess. He died of a mysterious drug overdose in 1981. King held in high esteem, and who created the prototype for Clapton, Hendrix, Page, and everyone who followed. Based on extensive interviews with Bloomfield himself and with those who knew him best, and including an extensive discography and Bloomfield’s memorable 1968 Rolling Stone interview,

"LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE LISTENED TO TO KNOW HOW I GOT TO WHERE I AM." MIKE BLOOMFIELD "I started playing the guitar when I was thirteen years old, and I was very bad for two or three years, and when I was about fifteen and a half, I got great." Mike Bloomfield.By the early '70s Mike Bloomfield's work with the Butterfield Blues Band wasn't heard as truly groundbreaking a. This is a fine book on the nearly forgotten first guitar 'hero' in Bill Lefeber This is a fine book on the nearly forgotten first guitar 'hero' in rock. Ed Ward shows us how Mike Bloomfield learned his craft in the blues bars and clubs in Chicago, playing alongside the likes of Big Joe Williams, Sunnyland Slim and Muddy Waters. We see how Bloomfield came to meet P. "A must-read for a limited audience" according to HT. This is a pretty short and succinct biography of Michael Bloomfield, a 1960s guitar hero I loved then and today. I knew some of the broad outlines of his story - growing up in Chicago; playing with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bob Dylan, and The Electric Flag; and his early death d