Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (956 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01HH4SL0C |
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| Number of Pages | : | 567 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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“A riveting tale of a restless spirit.” —Rolling Stone
"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 as it was when the album "East-West" was released because there was so much other good, innovative soundi. Bill Lefeber said This is a fine book on the nearly forgotten first guitar 'hero' in. 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 Paul Butterfield and being asked to play in Bob Dylan's band at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and later . A must-read for a limited audience 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 due to alcoholism and/or drug use in 1981.Bloomfield was devoted to the blues; he grew up in Chicago and
This book, 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, is an intimate portrait of one of the pioneers of rock guitar.. This is the definitive biography of the legendary guitarist whom Muddy Waters and B. Bloomfield 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 g