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Title: An American Milestone Recording
Review: I've been playing guitar for almost 50 years. I came up in Texas in the traditional Blues tradition. (T-Bone and the 3 Kings, Freddie, Albert and BB, Lightnin' Hopkins, Johnny Winter etc.) I bought P. Butterfield B.B.'s first album because they had Howlin' Wolf's rhythm section with new guitar players. Wow! They knocked my socks off! Particularly, Michael Bloomfield. I remember when this album came out, everyone was primed to buy it. All my guitar picking friends wore out a couple of copies straight away. Those Michael Bloomfield solos became "The Encyclopedia". I never get tired of hearing Mike Bloomfield's solos. East-West kicked off a whole Raga rock thing in midst of the oncoming wave of Psychedelia. The Harmonic minor scale existed well before that but not the way Michael played it and connected it to the Blues. This album was and is a very important album in grand scheme of Popular Music.
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