Mike Bloomfield

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Mike Bloomfield
Bloomfield c. 1968
Background information
Birth name	Michael Bernard Bloomfield
Born	(1943-07-28)July 28, 1943 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	February 15, 1981(1981-02-15) (aged 37) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Genres	Blues blues rock Chicago blues psychedelic rock
Occupations	Musician songwriter
Instruments	Guitar vocals
Years active	1959–1981
Formerly of	The Paul Butterfield Blues Band The Electric Flag
Website	mikebloomfield.com

Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American blues guitarist and composer. Born in Chicago, he became one of the first popular music stars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, as he rarely sang before 1969.^[1] Respected for his guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues musicians before achieving his own fame and was instrumental in popularizing blues music in the mid-1960s. In 1965, he played on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, including the single "Like a Rolling Stone", and performed with Dylan at that year's Newport Folk Festival.

Bloomfield was ranked No. 22 on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2003^[2] and No. 42 by the same magazine in 2011.^[3] He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2012 and, as a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.