Paul Butterfield Debut LP (180g)

摘要

At 11 o'clock in the morning of Sunday the 15th of February 1981, the police were called to a quiet side-street in the upscale neighbourhood of Forest Hills, San Francisco. There they found a beat-up beige 1971 Mercury Marquis. All four doors were locked, and slumped in the front seat behind the steering wheel was a body. An empty Valium bottle was discovered in the pocket of a coat on the back seat. The body was soon identified as that of 37-year-old Michael Bernard Bloomfield, a native of Chicago who'd been lately residing in Mill Valley - a man raised in an affluent Jewish family who broke away to play guitar and was once referred to, in the late 1960s, by Eric Clapton as 'music on two legs', claimed by Muddy Waters as 'my son' and rated by those who knew about these things as 'the future of the blues'. His guitar style - cutting-treble tone, a breakneck ability to improvise and incisive, melodic articulation - was hugely admired and much sought-after. 'He had so much soul... he knew all the styles,' observed Bob Dylan. 'Michael was organic - he played directly from his heart into an amp,' said a former bandmate. 'Without a guitar, I'm like a poet with no hands,' Bloomfield himself said when he was 24.