Paul butterfield blues band wiki

1965 studio album by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band is the self-titled debut album by the American blues rock band of the same name, released in 1965 on Elektra Records.

It peaked at number 123 on the Billboard albums chart. In 2012, the album was ranked number 468 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".^[4] It is ranked at number 11 on DownBeat's list of the top 50 blues albums.^[5]

Recording and releases

In late 1964, Joe Boyd, an aspiring producer and friend of Elektra house producer Paul Rothchild, told Rothchild that the "best band in the world was on stage at a blues bar in Chicago".

Rothchild took a plane to Chicago to see the Butterfield quartet, and later the same night went to a different club – again, at the suggestion of Joe Boyd – and saw guitarist Mike Bloomfield with a different band.^[6] According to Rothchild, it