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If You Love These Blues, Play 'Em As You Please
America's first white blues-guitar star was in a mess of blues (breakdowns, substance abuse) when he made this instructional album in 1976 -- an intimate lesson that doubles as a moving study of Bloomfield's rare gifts and love of the music. This reissue comes with nine sublime tracks from an instru...
1976 RS:
Biography
As a teenager living on Chicago's North Shore, Michael Bloomfield
ventured downtown to seek out the patriarchs of Chicago blues -
Muddy Waters, Albert King, and others - and learned their guitar
techniques firsthand. Playing Chicago blues and folk clubs with
singer Nick Gravenites and harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite in
the early '60s, he attracted the attention of Paul Butterfield,
whose band...
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