Mike Bloomfield Sources & Credits

 

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Credits

Home page design

Mike Diehl

Site design, maintenance

David Dann

Opening page image, music

Courtesy Norman Dayron

 

Sources

Print

• "If You Love These Blues” by Jan Mark Wolkin & Bill Keenom; Miller Freeman Books, San Francisco 2000

• “Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero” by Ed Ward;

Cherry Lane Music Company, New York 1983

• "Strange Brew: Eric Clapton & the British Blues Boom, 1965-1970" by Christopher Hjort; Jawbone Press 2007 http://jawbonepress.com/2007/02/strange-brew.html

• "Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads" by Greil Marcus; PublicAffairs, New York 2005

• "Tell On It" by David Randall Shorey; Xlibris 2004, www.Xlibris.com

• "Million Dollar Les Paul" by Tony Bacon; Jawbone Press 2008 http://www.jawbonepress.com/2008/09/million-dollar-les-paul.html

• Dan McClosky interviews with Mike Bloomfield

• Various magazine interviews and reviews

• Various newspaper archives

 

Web

• The official Mike Bloomfield web site, www.mikebloomfield.com

• Chrome Oxide Music Collectors Pages, www.chromeoxide.com

• Mark Naftalin’s web site (Winner Records) which includes Bloomfield Notes, www.bluespower.com

• Interviews with Nick Gravenites at www.bluespower.com/a-ngbtb.htm and http://www.swaves.com/Back_Issues/Aug05/Nick%20Gravenites.htm

• Grateful Dead Family Discography, www.deaddisc.co.uk

• Bloomfools group, http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/bloomfools/

• Country Joe & the Fish site,  http://www.cjfishlegacy.com/mikebloomfieldtributes.html

• Vintage poster sites

• Various personal web pages, bulletin boards, bootleg trading lists and blogs

 

Discographies

• “Discography,” compiled by Ed Ward

• “Bloomfield Discography,” compiled by Jan Mark Wolkin

• “The Ultimate Complete Michael Bloomfield Discography,” compiled by Renι Aagaard

• “60 Years of Recorded Jazz, 1917-1977,” compiled by Walter Bruyninckx

 

Other sources  

• Record liner notes, aural evidence, personal knowledge

 

Special thanks to:

• Renι Aagaard

• Denny Bruce

• Allen Bloomfield

• Toby Byron

• Felix Cabrera

• Norman Dayron

• Eric at www.mikebloomfield.com

• Dan Erlewine

• Fred Glaser

• Barry Goldberg

• Nick Gravenites

• Joel Harlib

• Ralph Heibutski, www.youtube.com/ChairmanRalph

• Christopher Hjort

• Mike Johnson at www.mikejohnsonmusic.com

• Bill Keenom

• Dan McClosky

• Peggy McVickar

• Michael Melford

• Mike Michaels, mikeharp@comcast.net

• Mark Naftalin

• David Pearson

• Marc Skobac

• Jan Wolkin

• The many, many fans who have contributed their personal recollections

 

To contribute additional entries or corrections: 

• Send discographical information to bloomsdisco@yahoo.com

• E-mail David Dann at divadnnad@yahoo.com

 

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