He played on some of rock's most pivotal early sessions, earning the undying respect and admiration of his peers along the way. Now, guitarist Michael Bloomfield is getting his due with a ...
Michael Bloomfield is the subject of a career-spanning 3CD/1DVD box set anthology due for release in February. Produced and curated by Al Kooper - who played with Mike Bloomfield on Bob Dylan's ...
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Bob Dylan and Jorma Kaukonen on the 1960s guitar icon who led an electric blues revolution and died alone and unknown
Dylan called Mike Bloomfield “the best guitar player I ever heard.” But his intensity and brilliance obscured a deep-seated ...
At one point in the mid/late ‘60s, Michael Bloomfield was considered by many as the country’s premiere blues-rock guitarist, seamlessly meshing the traditions of the genre’s past with the louder ...
In the summer of 1965, Bob Dylan made music history when he plugged it in. The folk hero played a set with electric instruments at the Newport Folk Festival. So who gave Dylan this bright idea? A kid ...
CHICAGO — A few days ago was a perfect day to see a movie in a movie theater: steady rain falling, temperatures dipping into the 30s and a movie diving into the past, specifically the early 1960s and ...
In the guitar-idol decade of the ’60s, British guitarists ruled: Cream’s Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green and London-based expatriate Jimi Hendrix. The ...
Whether he meant to or not, in writing Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero, Ed Ward mirrors his subject's style of guitar-playing. Flurries of facts precede extended ...
Less than a week after Mike Bloomfield's extravagantly painted 1966 Fender Telecaster made its way to the second-hand market, the Tele he played during Bob Dylan's infamous Newport Folk Festival set ...
Through a combination of journalistic objectivity, scholarly attention to detail and the passion of a fan, author David Dann accomplishes exactly what he professes to achieve in his 'Prologue' to ...
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You Can Own a Guitar Played on ‘Like A Rolling Stone' and at Newport '65 - For $275,000
In August 1963, a yellow Telecaster emerged from Fender's original California factory, ending up two years later in the hands of a gifted young guitarist named Michael Bloomfield - who bought it after ...
Michael Bloomfield was my first guitar hero. I never met or saw him in concert. But the clarion-treble ring of his guitar and the rapturous grip of his instinctive, melodic soloing have been a ...
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