This compilation is a blues purists' dream, packaging If You Love These Blues, Play 'Em As You Please (1976), guitarist Bloomfield's personal tour through the history of acoustic and electric guitar ...

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 ...

Mike Bloomfield burst upon the music scene in a major way in 1965, first on Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited and a short time later on the debut of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Actually, I first ...

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 ...

Michael Bloomfield in February 1973, performing during an opening set for a reunion of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco Credit: Photo by Jonathan Perry / ...

Michael Bloomfield began playing in Chicago blues clubs while still in high school. By 1968 he was considered one of the best guitarists in the world along with Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. By that ...