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Legendary blues guitarist Michael Bloomfield, best known for his work on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited and the influential album Super Session with Al Kooper. Described as one of the most influential guitarists of his era, Bloomfield was a pioneer in bringing electric blues to a wider rock audience. The photograph was taken by Jim Marshall, famous for documenting counterculture musicians in the 1960s.

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SWEET BLUES trailer from bsarles on Vimeo.

Lecture 13: One of the best music documentaries of the last 20 years is Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield (2013), directed by Bob Sarles, an outstanding film that chronicles the life and times of Blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield (1943-1981). This trailer does a splendid job of capturing the film’s essence. Bloomfield, like his hero, B.B. King, specialized in Blues guitar music, but he – also like King (and Muddy Waters) played a vital role in bridging the electrified Blues of the 1950s and 1960s with the coming of Classic Rock in the mid-1960s. It’s no surprise, then, that a number of important musicians, such as Carlos Santana, Bob Dylan, and Jerry Garcia revered Bloomfield. While most Rock ‘n’ Roll histories tend to omit or downplay his contributions, I believe he’s worth spotlighting for his innovative Blues guitar style and his enormous influence on an entire generation of rock musicians. 

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Lecture 12: Janis Joplin left Big Brother and the Holding Company in 1968 and organized another group, the Kozmic Blues Band. In the last year of her life, her music evolved into a more soulful and bluesy style that emphasized her voice even more than her music with Big Brother. In this video, Janis performs a song titled “Kozmic Blues” at a 1970 concert in Frankfurt. They perform such songs as “Try (Just a Little Bit Harder),” “Me,” “Maybe,” “Summertime," “Ball and Chain," and "Take Another Piece of My Heart." The Kozmic Blues band consisted of a variety of different musicians, including Joplin’s former Big Brother band mate Sam Andrew and legendary Blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield. I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama! was Joplin’s only solo album released during her lifetime. Her next album, Pearl, came out posthumously. (Incidentally, this concert footage also includes brief interview segments – check it out!)