Michael Bloomfield
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Book Review: ‘Guitar King’ Tackles the Life, Legacy and Tragedy of Michael Bloomfield
The guitarist backed Dylan, wowed them at Monterey Pop, and was on the verge of becoming the American Eric Clapton -- but wound up dead and obscure. A new bio traces the story.
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From His Head to His Heart to His Hands
A bar-mitzvahed Chicago son who baby-sat Muddy Waters' grandkids, Mike Bloomfield was no average Sixties guitar hero. But "hotshit player" doesn't begin to describe the underappreciated blues-rock figurehead, as this beautiful four-disc set makes clear. The 1964 demos here show a twentysomething fluent in urban and rural blues, country and jazz, with a sweet, breakneck […]
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Fricke’s Picks Radio: Michael Bloomfield’s Prescription for the Blues
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 constant presence on every playback device I own, since I first heard his elegiac solo bridge in the middle of the […]
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