Paul Butterfield was a classically-trained musician who took a shine to blues harmonica following the influence of Muddy Waters and other blues artists in his hometown of Chicago.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band played a key role in spreading blues rock as a genre throughout the 1960s among a younger and broader following. The original band broke-up during my high school years while Butterfield soldiered-on as a solo artist. Tragically, he died of a drug overdose in 1987 at the age of 44.
What a waste.
Butterfield was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2006 and the original members of the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.
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