"It’s six o’clock Monday morning. The sun is up and the kids are clearing out, going back to their jobs, schools, worried parents. Some are just wiped out from a long weekend of too much music, rain, and dope, and too little food. Regardless, the crowd is clearing out, which is a goddamned shame because the Paul Butterfield Blues Band is about to kick some ass. Paul Butterfield was no blue-eyed blues wannabee. ... The first incarnation of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band included a couple of Howlin’ Wolf’s guys, Bishop, Butterfield, and guitar legend Mike Bloomfield. By 1969 Butterfield was the only original member, so it was a new Butterfield Blues Band that played Woodstock — no Elvin Bishop or Mike Bloomfield, but future saxophone superstar David Sanborn was in the brass section. ..."
The (Kind Of) Complete Woodstock: Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Woodstock Years
YouTube: Everything's Gonna Be Alright, Morning Sunrise, Drifting Blues
2014 January: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (1965), 2015 July: East-West (1966), 2015 November: Complete Albums 1965-1980
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