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Paul Butterfield Blues Band: East West
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The second album by the American group The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was released by Elektra Records in August 1966. East West is a fundamental record for the blues-rock genre. Until then, the only white musicians playing the Blues were the English Yardbirds with Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones, just to name the most famous. In other words, they were the link between rock, blues, and jazz, as well as captivating the white audience, helping to definitively "legitimize" the founders of the Blues such as Muddy Waters and B.B. King. The lineup also featured other "sacred monsters" like guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop. Bloomfield, in particular, was crucial for Bob Dylan's electric evolution, in the famous performance at the Newport festival in 1965, which was key to the birth of folk-rock.