Mike Bloomfield

Mike Bloomfield is one of those guitarists who makes you stop and ask "wait, who IS that?" the first time you hear him — and for 1960s American music, that moment hit a lot of people at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when he played electric guitar behind Bob Dylan and essentially helped ignite the whole Dylan-goes-electric controversy. The man grew up wealthy in Chicago but dove headfirst into the South Side blues scene like his life depended on it, soaking up Muddy Waters and B.B. King until his playing had that lived-in, aching quality that white guys almost never pulled off convincingly. His work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the Electric Flag showed just how deeply he understood the genre, and the album "Super Session" with Al Kooper remains a genuine classic. He burned bright, struggled hard with addiction, and was gone at 37 — a real tragedy, because that guitar voice was irreplaceable.

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Name (English)

Mike Bloomfield

Name (Japanese)

マイク・ブルームフィールド

Reading

まいく・ぶるーむふぃーるど

Born

July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

guitarist / pianist / singer / blues musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat

High school

New Trier High School

• Official sitehttps://mikebloomfield.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Bloomfield
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919156

Tags

• Illinois
• guitarist
• pianist
• singer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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