Eric's Blues Dates - May 4th

Louis Erlanger louisx@MYFAIRPOINT.NET
Fri May 4 00:52:43 EDT 2012


He and Mike Bloomfield turned thousands of white kids on to the blues.
There's a very interesting series of videos about Mike Bloomfield's life
on Youtube. Just search on his name.

On 5/3/2012 10:50 PM, jinxblues@AOL.COM wrote:
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> BUTTERFIELD, PAUL                   (hca) d. 1987-0504, NORTH HOLLYWOOD,
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> This was the first nationally touring harmonica player out of Chicago that looked like his audience.
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> White kids could not identify with Little Walter or Junior Wells but watching 'Butter' made a whole lot of guys think they could do it themselves.
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> His influence was really significant . . .
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> Dick Waterman
> 1601 Buchanan Avenue
> Oxford, MS 38655
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