The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
{{short description|American blues rock band}}
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{{use American English|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
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| image = File:Paul Butterfield Blues Band, circa 1967.jpg
| caption = The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, {{circa|1967}}. From left to right, Gene Dinwiddie, Paul Butterfield, Keith Johnson, Elvin Bishop, Mark Naftalin, Phillip Wilson, Charley 'Bugsy' Maugh, David Sanborn.
| years_active = 1963–1971
| origin = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
| genre = {{hlist|Chicago blues|blues rock|soul blues}}
| label = Elektra
| past_members = {{ubl|
Keith Johnson|
Charley "Bugsy" Maugh|
Rod Hicks|
Steve Madaio|
Ted Harris|
Ralph Wash|
George Davidson|
Dennis Whitted
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was an American blues and blues-rock band from Chicago. Formed in the summer of 1963, the group originally featured eponymous vocalist and harmonicist Paul Butterfield, guitarist Elvin Bishop, bassist Jerome Arnold, and drummer Sam Lay.{{cite web |url=https://www.harmonica.com/paul-butterfield-57135.html |title=How a Rule-Breaker Changed Harmonica Forever – The Paul Butterfield Story |last=Rodack |first=Jaine |date=16 November 2018 |publisher=Harmonica.com |accessdate=July 23, 2019 }} The band added guitarist Mike Bloomfield and keyboardist Mark Naftalin before recording their self-titled debut album, which was released in October 1965. The founding sextet were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, along with Billy Davenport, their drummer on their second album, East-West (The Butterfield Blues Band album).
History
In the early 1960s, Butterfield met aspiring blues guitarist Elvin Bishop.{{sfn|Field|2000|pp=212–214}}
{{cite magazine
| url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/paul-butterfield/biography
| title = Paul Butterfield: Biography
| magazine = Rolling Stone.com
| access-date = September 13, 2013
| url-status = dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180504192345/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/paul-butterfield/biography
| archive-date = May 4, 2018
}} Bishop recalled:
{{blockquote|He [Butterfield] was playing more guitar than harp when I first met him. But in about six months he became serious about the harp, and he seemed to get about as good as he got in that six months. He was just a natural genius. This was in 1960 or 1961. By this time Butter had been hanging out in the ghetto for a couple of years, and he was part of the scene and getting accepted.{{sfn|Erlewine|1996|p=41}}}}
Eventually, Butterfield, on vocals and harmonica, and Bishop, accompanying him on guitar, were offered a regular gig at Big John's, a folk club in the Old Town district on Chicago's near North Side.{{sfn|Erlewine|1996|p=41}} With this booking, they persuaded bassist Jerome Arnold and drummer Sam Lay (both from Howlin' Wolf's touring band) to form a group with them in 1963. Their engagement at the club was highly successful and brought the group to the attention of record producer Paul A. Rothchild.
{{cite web
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| last = Leggett
| first = Steve
| title = The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Biography
| website = AllMusic
| access-date = September 14, 2013
}}
=With Mike Bloomfield=
During their engagement at Big John's, Butterfield met and occasionally sat in with guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who was also playing at the club.{{sfn|Field|2000|pp=212–214}} By chance, producer Rothchild witnessed one of their performances and was impressed by the chemistry between the two. He persuaded Butterfield to bring Bloomfield into the band, and they were signed to Elektra Records.{{cite book |last=Helander |first=Brock |title=The Rockin' 60s: The People Who Made the Music |date=2001 |location=New York City, New York |publisher=Schirmer Trade Books |isbn=978-0857128119 |page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4mbHDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT116 |access-date=July 23, 2019 }}{{cite web |url=http://blog.bethelwoodscenter.org/2019/06/06/50-years-of-peace-music-30-the-paul-butterfield-blues-band/ |title=50 Years of Peace & Music: 30. the Paul Butterfield Blues Band |last1=Lawrence |first1=Wade |last2=Parker |first2=Scott |publisher=Bethel Woods Center for the Arts |date=June 6, 2019 |accessdate=July 23, 2019 }} Their first attempt to record an album, in December 1964, did not meet Rothchild's expectations, although an early version of "Born in Chicago", written by Gravenites, was included on the 1965 Elektra sampler Folksong '65 and created interest in the band. Additional early recordings were released on the Elektra compilation What's Shakin' in 1966 and The Original Lost Elektra Sessions in 1995.{{cite web |url=https://www.kunc.org/post/paul-butterfield-blues-band-impacted-generation-young-musicians#stream/0 |title=The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Impacted A Generation of Young Musicians |last=Applegate |first=Marc |publisher=KUNC |date=July 27, 2013 |accessdate=July 23, 2019 }}
To capture their sound better, Rothchild convinced Elektra president Jac Holzman to record a live album.{{sfn|Rothchild|1995|pp=1–4}} In the spring of 1965, the Butterfield Blues Band was recorded at the Cafe Au Go Go in New York City. These recordings also failed to satisfy Rothchild, but the group's appearances at the club brought them to the attention of the East Coast music community.{{sfn|Field|2000|pp=212–214}} Rothchild persuaded Holzman to agree to a third attempt at recording an album.{{sfn|Rothchild|1995|p=3}}
In these recording sessions, Rothchild had assumed the role of group manager and used his folk contacts to secure the band more engagements outside of Chicago.{{sfn|Ellis III|1997}} At the last minute, the band was booked to perform at the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965.{{sfn|Field|2000|pp=212–214}} They were scheduled as the opening act the first night when the gates opened and again the next afternoon in an urban blues workshop at the festival.{{sfn|Ellis III|1997}} Despite limited exposure on the first night and a dismissive introduction the following day by the folklorist and blues researcher Alan Lomax,{{sfn|Marcus|2006|pp=154–155}}{{efn|Albert Grossman, who had agreed to take over management of the band the night before, was incensed at Lomax's perceived insults, and an argument backstage led to an altercation between the two.}} the band was able to attract an unusually large audience for a workshop performance. Maria Muldaur, with her husband Geoff, who later toured and recorded with Butterfield, recalled the group's performance as stunning; it was the first time that many of the mostly folk-music fans had heard a high-powered electric blues combo.{{sfn|Ellis III|1997}} Among those who took notice was festival regular Bob Dylan, who invited the band to back him for his first live electric performance. With little rehearsal, Dylan performed a short, four-song set the next day with Bloomfield, Arnold, and Lay (along with Al Kooper and Barry Goldberg).{{sfn|Marcus|2006|pp=154–155}} The performance was not well received by some and generated a controversy,
{{cite web
| last = Huey
| first = Steve
| title = Paul Butterfield: Biography
| website = AllMusic
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-butterfield-mn0000019339/biography
| access-date = July 23, 2013
}} but it was a watershed event and brought the band to the attention of a much larger audience.{{sfn|Ellis III|1997}}
The band added keyboardist Mark Naftalin, and its debut album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, was finally successfully recorded in mid-1965 and released in October of that year.{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-paul-butterfield-blues-band-mn0000016835/biography |title=The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Biography & History |last=Leggett |first=Steve |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=July 23, 2019 }} The opening song, a newer recording of the previously released "Born in Chicago", is an upbeat blues rocker and set the tone for the album, which included a mix of blues standards, such as "Shake Your Moneymaker", "Blues with a Feeling", and "Look Over Yonders Wall", and compositions by the band. The album, described as a "hard-driving blues album that, in a word, rocked",{{sfn|Erlewine|1996|p=41}} reached number 123 in the Billboard 200 album chart in 1966, but its influence was felt beyond its sales figures.
Shortly after the album's release, Lay was hospitalised after contracting pleural effusion; he was replaced for one show by Billy Warren, who was then dismissed in favor of Billy Davenport, who joined in late December.{{cite book |last1=Ward |first1=Ed |last2=Gibbons |first2=Billy |title=Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero |date=September 2016 |location=Chicago, Illinois |publisher=Chicago Review Press |isbn=978-1613733318 |page=93 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=43WADAAAQBAJ&pg=PT93 |access-date=July 23, 2019 }}
In July 1966, the sextet recorded their second album, East-West, which was released a month later.{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/east-west-mw0000193694 |title=East-West - Paul Butterfield, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Songs, Reviews, Credits |last=Deming |first=Mark |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=July 23, 2019 }} The album consists of more varied material, with the band's interpretations of blues (Robert Johnson's "Walkin' Blues"), rock (Michael Nesmith's "Mary, Mary"), R&B (Allen Toussaint's "Get Out of My Life, Woman"), and jazz selections (Nat Adderley's "Work Song"). East-West reached number 65 in the album chart.
The 13-minute instrumental track "East-West" incorporates Indian raga influences and some of the earliest jazz-fusion and blues rock excursions, with extended solos by Butterfield and guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop. It has been described as "the first of its kind and ... the root from which the acid rock tradition emerged".{{sfn|Tamarkin|1996|p=42}} Live versions of the song sometimes lasted nearly an hour, and performances at the San Francisco Fillmore Auditorium "were a huge influence on the city's jam bands".{{sfn|Houghton|2010|p=195}} Bishop recalled, "Quicksilver, Big Brother, and the Dead – those guys were just chopping chords. They had been folk musicians and weren't particularly proficient playing electric guitar – [Bloomfield] could play all these scales and arpeggios and fast time-signatures ... He just destroyed them."{{sfn|Houghton|2010|p=195}} Several live versions of "East-West" from this period were later released on East-West Live in 1996.
=Later band=
In February 1967, Bloomfield left the Butterfield Blues Band and moved to San Francisco, California, to form a new band called the Electric Flag.{{cite web |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/mike-bloomfield-tombstone-blues |title=The sensational story of Mike Bloomfield: from prodigy to tragedy |last=Hughes |first=Rob |work=Blues |date=October 7, 2018 |accessdate=July 23, 2019 }}
By the time the group performed at the Monterey Pop Festival, Arnold had been replaced by Charley "Bugsy" Maugh, and the group had expanded with the addition of saxophonists Gene Dinwiddie and David Sanborn and trumpeter Keith Johnson.{{cite web |url=https://www.nepr.net/post/paul-butterfield-monterey-pop#stream/0 |title=Paul Butterfield at Monterey Pop |last=Reney |first=Tom |publisher=New England Public Radio |date=August 2, 2017 |accessdate=July 23, 2019 }}
The eight-piece lineup released the band's third album, The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw in 1967. The album cut back on extended instrumental jams and went in a more rhythm and blues-influenced horn-driven direction, with songs such as Charles Brown's "Driftin' Blues" (retitled "Driftin' and Driftin'"), Otis Rush's "Double Trouble", and Junior Parker's "Driving Wheel".{{sfn|Erlewine|1996|p=42}} The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw was Butterfield's highest-charting album, reaching number 52 on the album chart. Most of this lineup performed at the seminal Monterey Pop Festival on June 17, 1967.{{efn|Billy Davenport played the drums, and Keith Johnson contributed trumpet in place of David Sanborn on saxophone. Former bandmate Mike Bloomfield also performed the same day at Monterey with his new group, Electric Flag.}}{{sfn|Perone|2005|p=3}} Davenport retired shortly thereafter and was replaced by Phillip Wilson.{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/phillip-wilson-mn0000276099/biography |title=Phillip Wilson: Biography & History |last=Eder |first=Bruce |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=July 23, 2019 }}
On its next album, In My Own Dream, released in 1968, the band continued to move away from its roots in Chicago blues towards a more soul-influenced, horn-based sound. With Butterfield singing only three songs, the album featured more band contributions.
{{cite web
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/in-my-own-dream-mw0000218755
| last = Eder
| first = Bruce
| title = Paul Butterfield Blues Band: In My Own Dream – Album Review
| website = AllMusic
| access-date = September 13, 2013
}} It reached number 79 in the Billboard album chart.
Bishop and Naftalin left shortly after the release of In My Own Dreams, with Howard "Buzz" Feiten brought in as their replacement.{{cite magazine |title=Talent On Stage: Butterfield Blues Band |magazine=Cash Box |volume=30 |issue=6 |date=September 7, 1968 |location=New York City, New York |publisher=Cash Box Publishing |page=41 |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/60s/1968/CB-1968-09-07-OCR-Page-0041.pdf |access-date=July 23, 2019 }} Early the next year, Maugh made way for Rod Hicks and Steve Madaio joined as a second trumpeter.{{cite magazine |title=Butterfield Blues Bangs It Out |magazine=Billboard |date=May 3, 1969 |location=New York City, New York |publisher=Billboard Publications |page=12 |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/60s/1969/Billboard%201969-05-03-OCR-Page-0012.pdf |access-date=July 23, 2019 }} By the summer, the group had also added keyboardist Ted Harris and third saxophonist Trevor Lawrence.
The Butterfield Blues Band was invited to perform at the Woodstock Festival on August 18, 1969. The band performed seven songs, and although its performance did not appear in the film Woodstock, one song, "Love March", was included on the album Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, released in 1970. In 2009, Butterfield was included in the expanded 40th Anniversary Edition Woodstock video, and an additional two songs appeared on the box set Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm.
The album Keep On Moving, with only Butterfield remaining from the original lineup, was released in 1969. It was produced by veteran R&B producer and songwriter Jerry Ragovoy, reportedly brought in by Elektra to turn out a "breakout commercial hit". The album was not embraced by critics or long-time fans;
{{cite web
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/keep-on-moving-mw0000219077
| last = Campbell
| first = Al
| title = Paul Butterfield: Keep on Moving – Album review
| website = AllMusic
| access-date = July 23, 2013
}} however, it reached number 102 in the Billboard album chart.
After the release of Keep On Moving, Feiten and Wilson were replaced by Ralph Wash and George Davidson, respectively, while Johnson also left.{{cite magazine |last=Erlich |first=Nancy |title=The Many Faces of Rock 'n' Roll Show Their Hands at Fillmore E. |magazine=Billboard |date=November 22, 1969 |location=New York City, New York |publisher=Billboard Publications |page=26 |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/60s/1969/Billboard%201969-11-22-OCR-Page-0026.pdf |access-date=July 23, 2019 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-mw0000206588 |title=Live - Paul Butterfield, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Songs, Reviews, Credits |last=Eder |first=Bruce |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=July 23, 2019 }} Late the following year, Harris left the band and Dennis Whitted took over from Davidson on drums.{{cite web |url=https://www.rockerzine.com/2017/10/reviewed-paul-butterfield-live-new-york-1970/ |title=Reviewed: Paul Butterfield - Live New York 1970 |last=Fluckinger |first=Don |work=Rocker |date=October 20, 2017 |accessdate=July 23, 2019 }}
A live double album by the Butterfield Blues Band, Live, was recorded March 21–22, 1970, at The Troubadour, in West Hollywood, California. By this time, the band included a four-piece horn section in what has been described as a "big-band Chicago blues with a jazz base". Live provides perhaps the best showcase for this unique "blues-jazz-rock-R&B hybrid sound".
{{cite web
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-mw0000206588
| last = Eder
| first = Bruce
| title = Paul Butterfield: Live – Album Review
| website = AllMusic
| access-date = July 23, 2013
}}
Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 2015.
{{cite web
| url = https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/paul-butterfield-blues-band
| last = Bently
| first = Bill
| title = The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – 2015
| website = Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
| access-date = December 16, 2014
}} The induction biography commented that "the Butterfield Band converted the country-blues purists and turned on the Fillmore generation to the pleasures of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Willie Dixon and Elmore James".
Butterfield died in May 1987 due to an accidental drug overdose.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-13-mn-6920-story.html |title=Musician's Death Laid to Overdose |work=Los Angeles Times |date=June 13, 1987 |accessdate=July 23, 2019 }}
Members
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|1963–1971 {{small|(died in 1987)}} |{{hlist|lead and backing vocals|amplified harmonica|occasional flute, piano and guitar}} |
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|1963–1967 |electric bass |{{hlist|The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (1965)|East-West (1966)|all Paul Butterfield Blues Band releases from The Original Lost Elektra Sessions (1995) onwards}} |
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| |Mark Naftalin
|1965–1968 |{{hlist|keyboards|piano}} |all Paul Butterfield Blues Band releases from The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (1965) to In My Own Dream (1968), and from The Original Lost Elektra Sessions (1995) onwards |
| |Billy Warren
|1965 |rowspan="2"|drums |none {{small|– one live performance only}} |
| |Billy Davenport
|1965–1967 {{small|(died in 1999)}} |{{hlist|East-West (1966)|all Paul Butterfield Blues Band releases from Strawberry Jam (1995) onwards}} |
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|1967–1971 {{small|(died in 2002)}} |{{hlist|tenor and soprano saxophones|flute|percussion|backing and lead vocals}} |{{hlist|all Paul Butterfield Blues Band releases from The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw (1967) to Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin |
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|1967–1971 {{small|(died in 2024)}} |{{hlist|alto saxophone|percussion}} |{{hlist|The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw (1967)|In My Own Dream (1968)|Keep On Moving (1969)|Strawberry Jam (1995) {{small|– one track only}}}} |
| |Keith Johnson
|1967–1969 |{{hlist|trumpet|percussion|piano}} |{{hlist|The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw (1967)|In My Own Dream (1968)|Keep On Moving (1969)|Strawberry Jam (1995) {{small|– three tracks only}}}} |
| |Charley "Bugsy" Maugh
|1967–1969 {{small|(died in 2015)}} |{{hlist|bass|backing and lead vocals}} |rowspan="2"|{{hlist|The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw (1967)|In My Own Dream (1968)|Strawberry Jam (1995) {{small|– three tracks only}}}} |
| |Phillip Wilson
|1967–1970 {{small|(died in 1992)}} |{{hlist|drums|percussion|congas|backing and lead vocals}} |
| |Howard "Buzzy" Feiten
|1968–1969 |{{hlist|guitar|keyboards|piano|French horn|backing and lead vocals}} |Keep On Moving (1969) |
| |Rod Hicks
|1969–1971 |{{hlist|bass|fretless bass|double bass|backing and lead vocals}} |rowspan="2"|{{hlist|Keep On Moving (1969)|Live (1970)|Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin |
| |Steve Madaio
|1969–1971 |{{hlist|trumpet|percussion|backing vocals}} |
| |Ted Harris
|1969–1970 {{small|(died in 2005)}} |{{hlist|keyboards|piano}} |{{hlist|Keep On Moving (1969)|Live (1970)|Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin |
| |Trevor Lawrence
|1969–1971 |{{hlist|baritone saxophone|percussion|backing vocals}} |{{hlist|Keep On Moving (1969)|Live (1970)|Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin |
| |Ralph Wash
|1969–1971 {{small|(died in 1996)}} |{{hlist|guitar|backing and lead vocals}} |{{hlist|Live (1970)|Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin |
| |George Davidson
|1969–1970 |drums |{{hlist|Live (1970)|Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin |
| |Dennis Whitted
|1970–1971 {{small|(died in 1993)}} |{{hlist|drums|backing vocals}} |Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin |
Timeline
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Lineups
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| scope="col"|Summer 1968 – early 1969
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| scope="col"|Early – summer 1969
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| scope="col"|Summer – late 1969
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| scope="col"|Late 1969 – late 1970
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| scope="col"|Late 1970 – late 1971
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Studio albums
- The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (1965) (peaked at number 123 on the Billboard 200 album chart){{cite magazine
| url = https://www.billboard.com/music/the-paul-butterfield-blues-band/chart-history
| title = The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – Chart History
| magazine = Billboard
| access-date = March 13, 2019
}}
- East-West (1966) (No. 65 on Billboard 200)
- The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw (1967) (No. 52 on Billboard 200)
- In My Own Dream (1968) (No. 79 on Billboard 200)
- Keep On Moving (1969) (No. 102 on Billboard 200)
- Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin' (1971) (No. 124 on Billboard 200)
Notes
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References
{{reflist}}
Sources
{{refbegin}}
- {{cite web
| url = http://www.bluesaccess.com/No_29/butter.html
| last = Ellis III
| first = Tom
| date = Spring 1997
| title = Paul Butterfield: From Newport to Woodstock
| website = Blues Access.com
| series = 29
}}
- {{cite encyclopedia
| last = Erlewine
| first = Michael
| title = All Music Guide to the Blues: The Experts' Guide to the Best Blues Recordings
| author-link = Michael Erlewine
| editor-last = Erlewine
| editor-first = Michael
| editor-link = Michael Erlewine
| encyclopedia = All Music Guide to the Blues
| section = Paul Butterfield Blues Band
| year = 1996
| location = San Francisco
| publisher = Miller Freeman Books
| isbn = 0-87930-424-3
| section-url-access = registration
| section-url = https://archive.org/details/allmusicguidetob00erle
}}
- {{cite book
| last = Field
| first = Kim
| title = Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers: The Evolution of the People's Instrument
| year = 2000
| location = New York City
| publisher = Cooper Square Press
| isbn = 978-0-8154-1020-1
}}
- {{cite book
| last = Houghton
| first = Mick
| title = Becoming Elektra: True Story of Jac Holzman's Visionary Record Label
| year = 2010
| location = London
| publisher = Jawbone Press
| isbn = 978-1-906002-29-9
}}
- {{cite book
| last = Marcus
| first = Greil
| author-link = Greil Marcus
| title = Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
| year = 2006
| location = New York City
| publisher = PublicAffairs
| isbn = 978-1-58648-382-1
}}
- {{cite book
| title = Woodstock: An Encyclopedia of the Music and Art Fair
| first = James
| last = Perone
| location = Santa Barbara, California
| publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group
| year = 2005
| isbn = 978-0-313-33057-5
}}
- {{cite AV media notes
| title = The Original Lost Elektra Sessions
| others = Paul Butterfield Blues Band
| year = 1995
| type = CD booklet
| first = Paul
| last = Rothchild
| author-link = Paul A. Rothchild
| location = Los Angeles
| publisher = Elektra Entertainment/Rhino Records
| id = R2 73305
}}
- {{cite encyclopedia
| last = Tamarkin
| first = Jeff
| encyclopedia = All Music Guide to the Blues
| title = East-West
| year = 1996
| publisher = Miller Freeman Books
| isbn = 0-87930-424-3
| page = 42
}}
{{refend}}
{{Paul Butterfield}}
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External links
- [https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/paul-butterfield-blues-band Paul Butterfield Blues Band page at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website]