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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Michael Nesmith, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Willie Dixon. Those roots explain a lot about how The Paul Butterfield Blues Band arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mike Bloomfield, John Mayall, Otis Rush, Chicken Shack and Freddie King, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bob Dylan, Quicksilver and The Stone Poneys, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, reaching back through Michael Nesmith and forward to Bob Dylan. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was an American blues and blues-rock band from Chicago. Formed in the summer of 1963, the group originally featured eponymous vocalist and harmonicist Paul Butterfield, guitarist Elvin Bishop, bassist Jerome Arnold, and drummer Sam Lay. The band added guitarist Mike Bloomfield and keyboardist Mark Naftalin before recording their self-titled debut album, which was released in October 1965. The founding sextet were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, along with Billy Davenport, their drummer on their second album, East-West.
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band connections
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band grew out of Michael Nesmith, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and Little Walter, shares an orbit with Mike Bloomfield, John Mayall, Otis Rush and Chicken Shack, went on to shape Bob Dylan, Quicksilver and The Stone Poneys. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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