Butterfield and Bishop formed the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which Bishop played in until 1968. The name of the band's third album, "The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw" is taken from Bishop's ...

After The Paul Butterfield Blues Band ended in the early 1970s, Butterfield formed Paul Butterfield's Better Days, a band that failed to catch on as much as his first project.

An unsung blues great talks influences, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and crossing over into jazz. Alan Paul. Sat, May 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC. 4 min read.

'Pigboy' would serve as the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's commercial high point, peaking at a middling No. 52 on the Billboard chart, and it was followed by a flurry of personnel changes ...

In 1963, Butterfield formed the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, hiring drummer Sam Lay and bassist Jerome Arnold away from Howlin’ Wolf’s Band.

That both things were wrapped up inside the Paul Butterfield Blues Band’s East-West, however, is undeniable — and, in the end, the album became a cornerstone for the group’s 2015 ascension ...

Stumbling across the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album at Hayes Music in Ukiah forever changed the lives of Pat and Robben Ford, two teenagers growing up far from blues clubs and big-city ...

During the blues revival and rediscovery of the Sixties, few dominated like Paul Butterfield, the hard-puffing, hard-living harmonica player and band leader.Assertive and experimental Butterfield ...

Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, he also played with blues legends Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf as well as with Bob Dylan.

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band came roaring out of a residency at Big John’s, a South Side Chicago blues bar, to became one of the musical sensations of 1965.

Elvin Bishop of Paul Butterfield Blues Band speaks onstage during the 30th Annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio on April 18th, 2015. Mike Coppola/Getty.

Real Gone Music's release of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band's Live 1966 is a godsend for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it reminds, if that's indeed necessary, of what a vital ...