- An Offer You Can't Refuse · 1972
- Live at Huntington Beach 21.11.78 · 2018
- North South · 1981
- North South · 1981
- Live at Huntington Beach 21.11.78 · 2018
- Classic Blues Live! · 2022
- Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It (Live: The Record Plant, 30 Dec '73) · 2018
- Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It (Live: The Record Plant, 30 Dec '73) · 2018
- Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It (Live: The Record Plant, 30 Dec '73) · 2018
- Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It (Live: The Record Plant, 30 Dec '73) · 2018
- Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It (Live: The Record Plant, 30 Dec '73) · 2018
- Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It (Live: The Record Plant, 30 Dec '73) · 2018
- Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It (Live: The Record Plant, 30 Dec '73) · 2018
Essential Albums
Artist Playlists
- The harp player pushed the boundaries of Chicago blues with intensity and expertise.
- His trailblazing '60s sound has echoed throughout the decades.
- Psychedelic influences and funked-up takes on blues classics.
- Slow-burning blues majesty and brisk harmonica lines.
Live Albums
Appears On
About Paul Butterfield
Singer/harmonica player Paul Butterfield and his band were from Chicago and well-schooled in that city's urban blues scene. Their first two albums of modernized Chicago blues not only created a critical stir, but led to large-scale interest in electric blues amongst the then-embryonic hippie generation. Members of the Butterfield band (most notably guitar whiz Mike Bloomfield) also played a key role in rock history by helping Bob Dylan along in his transition to electric music. Butterfield's 1966 album EAST-WEST was strikingly prescient in its incorporation of Eastern modalities. By the mid-'70s he was getting into the post-Woodstock rural vibe with his BETTER DAYS band. Though Butterfield's salad days were far behind him when he passed away in the late-'80s, he had changed both the blues and rock worlds irrevocably.
- HOMETOWN
- Chicago, IL, United States
- BORN
- 17 December 1942
- GENRE
- Blues