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Mike Bloomfield posing in a black-and-white studio portrait, wearing a dark jacket over a buttoned shirt, looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.

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Mike Bloomfield’s Chicago Hustle: Pistols, Rush Street Tapes, and a Blues Education

How Bloomfield’s early-60s Chicago grind and key friendships with Butterfield, Bishop, and Gravenites forged a genre-bending guitar legend.

Mike Bloomfield with other blues artists

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Mike Bloomfield at 17: Holding His Own in Black Clubs and Rewriting the Blues

How a wealthy Chicago kid earned respect in South Side bars, became a protégé of black blues masters and turned their lessons into a lifetime of guitar scholarship.