The Paul Butterfield Blues Band is the debut album by Paul Butterfield, released in 1965 on Elektra Records, EKS 7294 in stereo, EKL 294 in mono. It peaked at on the Billboard pop albums chart. In 2003, the album was ranked number 476 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, moving up to number 468 in the revised 2012 list, and also is ranked at on Down Beat magazine's list of the top 50 blues albums.
Even after his death, Paul Butterfield's music didn't receive the accolades that were so deserved. Outputting styles adopted from Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters among other blues greats, Butterfield became one of the first white singers to rekindle blues music through the course of the mid-'60s. His debut album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, saw him teaming up with guitarists Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield, with Jerome Arnold on bass, Sam Lay on drums, and Mark Naftalin playing organ
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band’s rhythm section was always its secret weapon, a take-no-prisoners pair seasoned in the hardest-core blues bands in Chicago, including that of Howlin’ Wolf. Drummer Sam Lay and bassist Jerome Arnold walked away from those slots to join Butterfield. On the sleeve of their debut album, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band were the very first to include the admonition Play It Loud. Paul Butterfield’s early ally in playing the blues probably says it best. When someone asked Michael Bloomfield to describe Butterfield, he said: You can quote me on this, man. Butterfield’s something else.
