The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Mm-hmm.

And so, um, God, Simon and Garfunkel and Warwick and Otis Redding and, and I really loved the blues afternoon with Paul Butterfield and the Butterfield Blues Band and Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane and Buffalo Springfield-

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... for what it's worth, and I had access to shooting.

It was a singer whose voice was already known to millions, but whose name may have still drawn a blank.

Fooled Around and Fell in Love had been one of the biggest hits of 1976, making the top five, credited to the Elvin Bishop Group, which was led by the former guitarist of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Bishop wasn't the band's singer, though, so few who heard or bought the record probably ever knew that it was actually Mickey Thomas they were hearing.

In 1977, Mickey Thomas had released his first solo album, As Long As You Love Me, which featured members of Booker T and the MGs.

Song number 1476, and we go to blues-rock guitarist Elvin Bishop with the only hit that ever made the Pop Top 40 for him.

He's a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer as a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Now, he can sing, but his voice is a bit gravelly, and he said he did not want to sing lead vocals on his signature hit, Fooled Around and Fell in Love.

So in 1976, he enlisted the help of background vocalist Mickey Thomas to sing lead vocals.

That is the very thing a kid in Wisconsin heard coming off a railroad rail.

Over here in America, Mike Bloomfield was playing a 1954 gold top with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and used it on most of the album East West.

the late 60s peter green jeff beck paul kossoff and jimmy page were all playing sunburst les pauls the demand got so loud that in july of 1968 gibson brought the original les paul back and it has been in production ever since and then there's dwayne allman whose tone a les paul through a pair of 50 watt marshalls has been named one of the greatest guitar sounds of all time He played a 1957 gold top on recordings that include Derek and the Dominoes' Layla.

So think about the shape of that.

There was, uh, two, uh, on the north side, there were, well, the, not that ti- There were essentially two white blues bands in Chicago that emerged in the, uh, early mid-'60s.

Uh, one is the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

When I say white, they're actually integrated bands.

The Siegel-Schwartz Blues Band was integrated throughout its time.