{"product_id":"michael-bloomfield-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-american-guitar-hero-9781613733288","title":"Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero","description":"\u003cp\u003eNominated for the 2017 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research  This is the definitive biography of the legendary guitarist whom eminent figures like Muddy Waters and B. B. King held in high esteem  and who created the prototype for Clapton  Hendrix  Page  and everyone who followed.  Bloomfield was one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess. He was a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band  which inspired a generation of white blues players; he played with Bob Dylan in the mid-1960s  when his guitar was a central component of Dylans new rock sound on Like a Rolling Stone and at his earthshaking 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance. He then founded the Electric Flag  recorded Super Session with Al Kooper  backed Janis Joplin  and released at least twenty other albums  despite debilitating substance abuse. He died of a mysterious drug overdose in 1981.  A very limited edition of a book of this title was first published in 1983  but it has here been so thoroughly revised and expanded that it is essentially a brand-new publication. Based on extensive interviews with Bloomfield himself and with those who knew him best  and including an extensive discography and Bloomfields memorable 1968 Rolling Stone interview  Michael Bloomfield is an intimate portrait of one of the pioneers of rock guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647844671541,"sku":"ByrdShop_1613733283","price":32.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781613733288.jpg?v=1781697891","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/michael-bloomfield-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-american-guitar-hero-9781613733288","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}