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Paul Butterfield

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    band the Monkees. For one, he was a real musician, not an actor. His songs “Mary, Mary” and “Different Drum” were recorded by Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Stone Poneys, respectively, before joining the show. After the show and for 45 years, Nesmith played   from The Morning Call Read more »

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    the 1960s and '70s, the band every bit as responsible for bringing a love of the blues to hordes of dirty white boys as the Paul Butterfield Blues Band or the Allman Brothers. Formed by Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson and Bob "The Bear" Hite in Los Angeles in 1966,   from About.com: Blues Read more »

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About Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield (December 17, 1942 – May 4, 1987) was an American blues harmonica player and singer, and one of the earliest white exponents of the Chicago originated electric blues style. The impact on the course of rock and roll by the Butterfield Blues Band with the release of their first album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and the song "Born In Chicago" in particular, was pivotal. They, along with British acts The Rolling Stones, The Animals, The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and others, including Butterfield's main competitor in Chicago, singer/harp player Charlie Musselwhite, helped introduce young white America to the blues, influencing hundreds of bands from the Grateful Dead to the Allman Brothers, and launched the brief reign of Michael Bloomfield as America’s most influential rock guitarist.

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