- An Offer You Can't Refuse · 1972
- North South · 1981
- Put It In Your Ear · 1976
- An Offer You Can't Refuse · 1973
- North South · 1981
- Put It In Your Ear · 1976
- Rare Chicago Blues (1962-1968) · 1993
- Put It In Your Ear · 1976
- North South · 1981
- Put It In Your Ear · 1976
- North South · 1981
- Live at the Lone Star · 2011
- Put It In Your Ear · 1976
Albums
- 2005
- 1996
- 1981
- 1976
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
- December 17, 1942
- GENRE
- Blues