Michael Bloomfield: the rise and fall of an American guitar hero

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The devil and Robert Johnson -- Fathers and sons -- Getting good -- Blues folk -- The Fickle Pickle, Big Joe, and Big John's -- The Butterfield Band -- Like a rolling stone -- Dylan and Newport -- Butter days -- Flying the Flag -- "Mike Bloomfield plugs in his guitar and his Flag" -- Super session -- Unplugging -- Terminally mellow -- Whatever happened to -- Records for money, records for fun -- Love and death -- Aftermath -- Epilogue. Altar songs -- The Rolling stone interview : Mike Bloomfield / by Jann S. Wenner -- Michael Bloomfield discography / by William J. Levay.;This is the definitive biography of the legendary guitarist whom Muddy Waters and B.B. King held in high esteem and who created the prototype for Clapton, Hendrix, Page, and those who followed. 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 guitar was a central component of Dylan s new rock sound on Like a Rolling Stone. 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. 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. The devil and Robert Johnson -- Fathers and sons -- Getting good -- Blues folk -- The Fickle Pickle, Big Joe, and Big John's -- The Butterfield Band -- Like a rolling stone -- Dylan and Newport -- Butter days -- Flying the Flag -- "Mike Bloomfield plugs in his guitar and his Flag" -- Super session -- Unplugging -- Terminally mellow -- Whatever happened to -- Records for money, records for fun -- Love and death -- Aftermath -- Epilogue. Altar songs -- The Rolling stone interview : Mike Bloomfield / by Jann S. Wenner -- Michael Bloomfield discography / by William J. Levay.