My tastes must be similar to Steve Baker, since the first Butterfield Blues Band record is my favourite. Although I had bought Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf LPs, this was my first revival Chicago blues album. I had been a folkie, listening to folk musicians like Sonny & Brownie, Dave Van Ronk, John Hammond and Josh White, then in the mid-sixties I read a review in Sing Out! by Tony “Little Son” Glover (of Blues, Rags & Hollers fame) of the first Butterfield album and bought it and became a fan.
I heard somewhere that Paul Butterfield, like Sonny Terry, Willie P. Bennett and Catfish Willie, played the harp upside down. (left handed?) Is this true?
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