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Drummer Billy Davenport was created Apr 23, 1931, in Chicago. His parents had been sharecroppers from rural Alabama who migrated to Chicago in 1928. He started learning drums at age six, after acquiring an old couple of drumsticks within an alley behind the Twin Door Lounge in the southside of …

Michael Bloomfield was among America’s 1st great white blues guitarists, earning his status on the effectiveness of his function in the Paul Butterfield Blues Music group. His expressive, liquid single lines and prodigious technique graced a great many other tasks — especially Bob Dylan’s first electrical forays — and he …

Sam Place was created March 20, 1935, in Birmingham, Alabama, and began his profession like a drummer in Cleveland in 1954, dealing with the Moon Puppy Combo. In 1957 he became a member of the initial Thunderbirds and remained with that group until 1959, when he remaining for Chicago to …

A veteran guitarist who fused the blues with gospel, R&B, and nation customs, Elvin Bishop was created in Glendale, California, on Oct 21, 1942. He was raised on a plantation in Iowa without electricity or operating water, and finally relocated to Oklahoma along with his family members when he was …

Blues musician, composer, and manufacturer Tag Naftalin played keyboards with the initial Paul Butterfield Blues Music group from 1965 to 1968. Since that time he has documented with best blues players like John Lee Hooker, Otis Hurry, Percy Mayfield, Wayne Natural cotton, Michael Bloomfield, Lowell Fulson, Big Joe Turner, and …

Paul Butterfield was the initial white harmonica participant to develop a method primary and powerful a sufficient amount of to put him within the pantheon of true blues greats. You can’t really overestimate the significance of the doorways Butterfield opened up: before he found prominence, white American music artists treated …

With a method honed within the gritty blues bars of Chicago’s south side, the Butterfield Blues Band was instrumental in bringing the sound of authentic Chicago blues to a white audience within the mid-’60s, and even though the band wasn’t an especially huge commercial success, its influence continues to be …