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Mike Bloomfield
12+ albums
blues rockbluesChicago Bluesguitarclassic rock
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Mike Bloomfield (born Michael Bernard Bloomfield in Chicago, Il, on 28 July 1943; died 15 February 1981) was an American guitarist and composer who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, since he rarely sang before 1969. Respected for his guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues musicians before achieving his own fame and was instrumental in popularizing blues music in the mid-1960s. He was ranked No. 22 on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2003 and No. 42 by the same magazine in 2011. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2012 and, as a member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Bloomfield was an indifferent student and self-described social outcast and immersed himself in the multi-cultural music world that existed in Chicago in the 1950s. He got his first guitar at age 13. Initially attracted to the roots-rock sound of Elvis Presley and Scotty Moore, Bloomfield soon discovered the electrified big-city blues music indigenous to Chicago. At the age of 14, the exuberant guitar wunderkind began to visit the blues clubs on Chicago’s South Side with friend Roy Ruby in search of his new heroes: players such as Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Howling Wolf, and Magic Sam. Not content with viewing the scene from the audience, Bloomfield was known to leap onto the stage,
top songs
albums
Super Session (with Al Kooper & Stephen Stills)
Prescription for the Blues
Bloomfield-A Retrospective
Super Session
Live at the Old Waldorf
Triumvirate
Don't Say That I Ain't Your Man!-Essential Blues
Try It Before You Buy It
From His Head To His Heart To His Hands
It's Not Killing Me
Essential Blues: 1964-1969
Between A Hard Place And The Ground