At one point in the mid/late ‘60s, Michael Bloomfield was considered by many as the country’s premiere blues-rock guitarist, seamlessly meshing the traditions of the genre’s past with the louder ...

CHICAGO — A few days ago was a perfect day to see a movie in a movie theater: steady rain falling, temperatures dipping into the 30s and a movie diving into the past, specifically the early 1960s and ...

Michael Bloomfield began playing in Chicago blues clubs while still in high school. By 1968 he was considered one of the best guitarists in the world along with Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. By that ...

Whether he meant to or not, in writing Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero, Ed Ward mirrors his subject's style of guitar-playing. Flurries of facts precede extended ...

In August 1963, a yellow Telecaster emerged from Fender's original California factory, ending up two years later in the hands of a gifted young guitarist named Michael Bloomfield - who bought it after ...

Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues David Dann 776 Pages ISBN: #978-1477318775 University of Texas Press 2019 Through a combination of journalistic objectivity, scholarly attention to ...

A newly re-issued and expanded biography of guitar hero Mike Bloomfield by Ed Ward, rock historian for NPR’s “Fresh Air,” paints a fascinating picture of the years at the end of the troubled ...

Mike Bloomfield never wanted to be famous. He just wanted to play guitar. And boy, could he play. He learned at the feet of the masters like Muddy Waters in clubs on Chicago’s South Side. He was at ...

Bloomfield was rock’s first modern guitar hero, a ferociously gifted improviser whose incandescent playing in the mid-Sixties with Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band transformed the future of ...

In the green room before Los Lobos’ Memorial Day concert at West Marin’s Rancho Nicasio, everyone’s attention was focused on the band’s guest for the day: 84-year-old bluesman Nick Gravenites. Wearing ...