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this article could use some neutrality cleanup (too many absolutes) and the sequence of events is mixed up. --sparkit 04:29, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I gave it my best shot. --sparkit 05:42, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] I just cut all this out.

it is not about Paul Butterfield at all. if it belongs anywhere [questionable] it would be in an article about Dylan or Bloomfield or the Newport Folk Festival. Carptrash 23:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

1965’s Bringing It All Back Home, Dylan had begun to move beyond exclusively acoustic folk music. On July 20, 1965, Dylan released "Like a Rolling Stone" with Bloomfield on lead guitar. It would go on to define the summer musically. At that summer’s Newport Folk Festival, which opened a few days later on July 23, 1965, all the buzz was over the revolutionary performance of the Butterfield Blues Band with Bloomfield on guitar, and their song "Born In Chicago." It is hard to imagine now, but fiery debate raged over the Butterfield Blues Band invading Newport with electric guitars! Scheduled to close the festival, on the day prior to his appearance, Dylan asked Bloomfield to find him a band. They rehearsed overnight. Dylan played the first half acoustic, and then went “electric” backed by the band Mike Bloomfield recruited consisting of Bloomfield on electric guitar, Al Kooper on organ, future Electric Flag member Barry Goldberg on piano, Jerome Arnold on electric bass, and Sam Lay on drums. All but Kooper and Goldberg were members of the Butterfield band. The crowd went nuts, booing Dylan off the stage. He returned acoustic to sing “It's All Over Now Baby Blue.” The back of the folk movement was broken. Five days later, Dylan returned to the studio to finish the rocking, electric "Highway 61 Revisited" album backed by Kooper and Bloomfield amongst others.
The incident at the Newport Folk Festival and Bloomfield's influence on Dylan's music is featured in the 2005 Martin Scorsese Dylan documentary "No Direction Home."
The release of the album “The Paul Butterfield Blues Band” was a revelation, along with their second album “East-West,” it taught America the blues, became the genesis of folk rock, psychedelic/acid rock, and anything that rejected 1960’s teen idol pop. Along the way, listening to Michael Bloomfield taught Americans including Duane Allman, Jerry Garcia, Steve Miller, and Carlos Santana how to play the electric guitar. The influence of the Butterfield Band continues to this day. Though obscured by time, they are uniquely responsible for making the blues something other than a forgotten musical footnote, and Michael Bloomfield stands along with Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Brian Setzer as one of America’s greatest blues influenced rock guitarists.

[edit] Butterfield and heroin

This is just one of many references to Butterfield's addiction to, and subsequent death from, heroin: allmusic

Michael David 14:49, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] copyvio question

I see the problem. I googled some of the text and it came directly from here: http://www.paulbutterfieldbluesbandposters.com 71.119.207.79 23:13, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

That's because the posters.com website is a Wiki-mirror stealing it's content from Wikipedia. 156.34.212.94 23:45, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

The link to Phil Wilson went to Phil Wilson the trombonist, changed that to Phil Wilson the drummer (also played with Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell and many other freejazz musicians, has no page yet). 82.95.132.32 (talk) 12:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Some major NPOV issues in the article

The article is ripe with personal praise and pov sheen. Needs a serious trim. The text seems like it is copy/pasted from a book. It reads like a magazine review and should be checked out. I will report it to the appropriate copyright project and also to the admin board for further checking. 156.34.226.160 (talk) 09:08, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

The article has been now been trimmed, although further references (and potential rewriting) is probably still necessary. More work is needed, but I have gone as far as I intend to (for now).
Derek R Bullamore (talk) 19:34, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Harmonica Style section added

I added a few paragraphs on the actual harmonica style Butterfield played. I'll have to come back and add to it, along with references and so on. It's a start, anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jusdafax (talk • contribs) 22:05, 12 March 2008 (UTC)