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Mike Bloomfield

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b. July 28, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois, USA
d. San Francisco, California, February 15, 1981, by drug overdose.
Respected for his fluid guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues legends even before he achieved his own fame, and was one of the primary influences on the mid-to-late 1960s revival of classic Chicago and other styles of blues music. In 2003 he was ranked at number 22 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Unlike contemporaries such as Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck, Bloomfield rarely experimented with feedback and distortion, preferring a loud but clean, almost chiming sound with a healthy amount of reverb. Gibson has since released a Michael Bloomfield Les Paul—replicating his 1959 Standard—in recognition of his effect on the blues genre, on helping to influence the revived production of the guitar, and on many other guitarists.

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Stop

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Albert's Shuffle

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3

Cherry Red

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4

Women Lovin' Each Other

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5

Hully Gully

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20 live performances · data from Setlist.fm

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January 31, 1981

The Catalyst

Santa Cruz, California, United States

  • 1. Dark Road Blues

  • 2. Mean Mistreater

  • 3. I Don't Know

  • 4. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out(Jimmy Cox cover)

  • 5. Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues(Jim Jackson cover)

  • 6. TB Blues

  • 7. Country Mechanic

  • 8. Frankie and Johnny([traditional] cover)

  • 9. Feel So Good

  • 10. Come On in My Kitchen(Robert Johnson cover)


December 12, 1980

Chester Town Meeting House

Chester, Connecticut, United States

  • 1. Sloppy Drunk

  • 2. Women Lovin' Each Other

  • 3. Now You're Gone

  • 4. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out(Jimmy Cox cover)

  • 5. I Think He's Hiding

  • 6.

  • 7. That's Why I Love Mankind

  • 8. Nelly Bly

  • 9. Come Back Baby

  • 10. Grave Train

  • 11. Snowblind

  • 12.

  • 13.

  • 14. Reflections In the Water

  • 15. Night Soil

  • 16.

  • 17.

  • 18. Over the Rainbow(Harold Arlen cover)

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  • 20.


September 24, 1980

Musikforum

Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden


September 23, 1980

Mariahissen

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden


September 18, 1980

Stadio Comunale

Florence, Tuscany, Italy

  • 1. She's Gone, Gone Gone

  • 2. Alabama Women Blues(Leroy Carr cover)

  • 3. New Minglewood Blues

  • 4. Bartender's Blues

  • 5. Trying to Get to You

  • 6. Soike Driver's Moan

  • 7. Frankie and Johnny([traditional] cover)

  • 8. Jesus On the Mainline

  • 9. Louise

  • 10. At the Cross

  • 11. Great Dreams From Heaven

  • 12. Finger Fat

  • 13. Knockin' Myself Out(Lil Green cover)

  • 14.

  • 15. We Shall Overcome([traditional] cover)

  • 1. Gonna Need Somebody on My Bond

  • 2. Country Mechanic

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