6. Mike Bloomfield
The 20 All-Time Greatest Chicago Guitarists
6. Mike Bloomfield
According to the site’s stats, Mikebloomfield.com has averaged 60 visits a day for the last six years – not bad for a white, Jewish blues guitarist who died in 1981 and is best known for his performances on other people’s albums. Mike Bloomfield crammed a lot of playing into his brief life. As a precocious Chicago teenager in the 1950s, he was sitting in with Muddy Waters. While a member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the mid-’60s, he helped Bob Dylan go electric. He’d been a legend for almost half his life when heroin got him at 37.
— Arsenio Orteza
