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DIED. Paul Butterfield, 44, innovative harmonica player of the 1960s and co- founder of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which helped introduce city blues to rock audiences; of undetermined causes; in Los Angeles. The band backed Bob Dylan when he used an electric guitar, a controversial move, at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, but became celebrated in its own right for cleverly merging blues, rock, folk and jazz themes...
Hooker's warm-up band for the Channel concern were a couple of white blues popularizers from the '60s: Paul Butterfield (The Paul Butterfield Blues Band) and Rick Danko (The Band). They struck me as the real blues prophets...
Danko and Butterfield definitely seemed like throwbacks, but as much to the Old West as to the Late Sixties. I felt like I was sitting round the campfire listening to a couple of ex-hippy pioneers who got the blues during New Orleans' Mardi-Gras--and stayed drunk ever since. They played blues standards like "Spoonful" and soul hits like Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools." But their rendition of the Band's "The Sun Don't Shine" reminded me where all this was coming from...
...Paul Butterfield's sudden death last week marked a tragic end to a great blues career. While the Buddha was being video-taped, Danko and Butterfield were making hard-hitting, down-home music that was a little bit of honest sound on the new yuppie blues scene...
...Channel--John Lee Hooker Band, Rick Danko, Paul Butterfield, T. Blade and the Esquires...