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Fathers and Sons with Muddy Waters was a favorite album of mine....
Muddy Waters vocals, guitar Otis Spann piano Michael Bloomfield guitar Paul Butterfield harmonica Donald Dunn bass guitar Sam Lay drums Paul Asbell rhythm guitar Buddy Miles drums on "Got My Mojo Working, Part 2" Jeff Carp chromatic harmonica on "All Aboard" Phil Upchurch bass guitar on "All Aboard"
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I'll heartedly second that! I think this was recorded before Muddy had a car accident with injury that weakened him somewhat. He's in full force here and the band does a fine job of working with him. The version of "Long Distance Call" on this record is worth the price of admission alone.
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The idea of a guitar hero was just around the corner in those days. I think Bloomfield was a more complete player than Clapton, especially when he was playing with Butterfield and Dylan. I think thats around the time the Beano album came out. Anyway, some of the early guys like Bloomfield are a bit forgotten by the public consciousness because they were doing what they were doing before that gunslinger guitar hero image had become part of popular culture. I think Clapton was kind of the first to bring that image to the fore, partly because of his playing, but also partly because England is not America. Blues was a little more unknown and exciting there, and its a smaller country so perhaps easier to make an impact.
Waiting in the wings while Clapton was solidifying the idea of a guitar hero with British youth though was an American who would complete the image of a guitar hero and also fundamentally change the idea of what could be done with an electric guitar. I dont think any other single rock musician is such a complete hard line of before him vs. after him. He was still relatively unknown when Mike Bloomfield saw him. "I was performing with Paul Butterfield and I was the hot-shot guitarist on the block I thought I was it. I'd never heard of Hendrix... I went across the street and saw him. Hendrix knew who I was, and that day, in front of my eyes, he burned me to death. H-bombs were going off, guided missiles were flying I can't tell you the sounds he was getting out of his instrument. He was getting every sound I was ever to hear him get, right there in that room with a Stratocaster, a [Fender] Twin [amplifier], a Maestro fuzz [box], and that was all he was doing it mainly through extreme volume. How he did this, I wish I understood... I didn't even want to pick up a guitar for the next year. "That day, Hendrix was laying things on me that were more sounds than licks. But I found, after hearing him two or three more times, that he was into pure melodic playing and lyricism as much as he was into sounds. In fact, he had melded them into a perfect blend." Quote:
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