Thank you for sharing!
I got turned on to Paul Butterfield 20 years ago; Bloomfield in high school 15 years before that (Electric Flag).
Have you ever listened to Johnny Adams? His second to last album,’One Foot in the Blues’, is amazing
http://jazztimes.com/articles/8842-one-foot-in-the-blues-johnny-adams
Thank you for sharing!
I got turned on to Paul Butterfield 20 years ago; Bloomfield in high school 15 years before that (Electric Flag).
Have you ever listened to Johnny Adams? His second to last album,’One Foot in the Blues’, is amazing Thank you, too!
When I got home from that 1969 camp trip and went prowling for blues albums with the saved-up allowance, one of the albums I bought was Super Session . . . because I was a Buffalo Springfield fan, too, and I noticed Stephen Stills on the front cover, so I got curious. I'd never yet heard Mike Bloomfield. But when you bought the LP at that time you got Mike Bloomfield with Al Kooper on side one. Once he got through with me, especially on the two slow blues jams and that magnificent modal jazz waltz jam ("His Holy Modal Majesty"), who the hell needed Steve Stills? I noticed the album's back jacket note mentioned their former bands, including the Electric Flag, so I landed A Long Time Comin' soon after that, and in the interim someone told me about the Butterfield Blues Band and you can guess the rest, especially East-West . . .
I like Johnny Adams. That album is a treat, especially the way he makes Percy Mayfield's vintages his own, and I'm a huge Percy Mayfield fan. Mayfield was a sort-of tragedy, if you think about the road accident that put a stop to his performing career, though he continued writing remarkable songs (including but not limited to "People Get Ready" for the Impressions---to whose leader Curtis Mayfield Percy Mayfield wasn't related, for those who didn't realise---and "Hit the Road, Jack" for Ray Charles . . .)