Butterfield, Paul (1942–1987)

US musician. A singer and harmonica player, he performed with Muddy Waters and Little Walter as a teenager. He formed the racially integrated Butterfield Blues Band, which pioneered blues-rock, introduced the electric guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop. Butterfield recorded and toured extensively as a bandleader between 1965–75.

He was born in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago in 1959–61.He backed Bob Dylan's controversial non-acoustic appearance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Butterfield also appeared at the Monterey Pop (1967) and Woodstock (1969) Festivals. He was featured with Muddy Waters at The Band's farewell concert in 1976, which was filmed as ‘The Last Waltz’, and performed sporadically thereafter until his death at age 44.