Naftalin played keys on the first four Paul Butterfield Blues Band albums, sometimes credited as Naffy Markham. Naftalin left the band in 1968 and moved to San Francisco and then Connecticut.

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 ...

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 ...

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band's first two albums are two of the greatest blues releases ever. However, the band's third album, 1967's "The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw," veered more towards R ...

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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...

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. ... Walker has released seven albums: ...

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.

Barry Goldberg, a Paul Butterfield Blues Band member who backed Bog Dylan at Newport '65, and later recorded an album produced by Dylan, died at 83.