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Sam Lay, a Chicago blues drummer and vocalist who played with Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, has died at his home in Chicago. Lay died Saturday of natural ...

His distinctive double-shuffle groove, which he likened to “three different drummers playing the same beat,” enlivened records by Howlin’ Wolf and many others. By Richard Sandomir Sam Lay, a powerful ...

"Lay was among the most historically significant and musically innovative drummers in both the early blues and rock 'n' roll scenes," Alligators Records, his label wrote in a statement Sam Lay, a ...

While the white British musicians learned to play the blues mostly by studying records, the American Paul Butterfield was a pupil — and soon enough, a rival — of the Chicago masters themselves. At a ...

It is absolutely riveting to watch Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story. And, likely as not, any music-loving viewer who begins will not be able to stop ...

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