Michael Bloomfield
1971
Recorded in
Michael Bloomfield’s home in Mill Valley, producer Dan McClosky
Michael
Bloomfield, guitar, piano, speak
Part One:
1. “ If You See
My Baby” (3.14)
2. “Introduction
by Dan McClosky” (6.32)
3. “Born In
Chicago - interview segment 1” (2.58)
4. “Interview
segment 2” (2.16)
5. “Our Love Is
Driftin’” (3.30)
6. “Interview
segment 3” (4.26)
7. “Long
Distance Call” (0.34)
8. “Interview
segment 4” (4.36)
9. “Get Out Of
My Life Woman” (3.06)
10. “Interview
segment 5” (10.03)
11. “One More
Mile” (0.45)
12. “Interview
segment 6” (4.22)
13. “Interview
segment 7” (4.44)
14. “Thank You
Mr. Poobah” (3.23)
15. “Dan
McClosky Farewell of part one” (013)
16. “Relaxin'
Blues” (5.46)
Part Two:
17. “Unknown
music segment 1 - interview segment 8” (2.43)
18.
“Introduction by Dan McClosky” (0.24)
19. “Last Night”
(4.17)
20. “Interview
segment 9” (3.54)
21. “Work Song”
(1.22)
22. “Interview
segment 10” (0.43)
23. “Unknown
music segment 2” (3.01)
24. “Interview
segment 11” (5.03)
25. “BB King
& MB at Fillmore” (5.50)
26. “Interview
segment 12” (4.49)
27. “Interview
cont. - spliced in from Retrospective LP-2” (0.43)
28. “Groovin’ Is
Easy” (2.40)
29. “Interview
segment 13” (0.22)
30. “Texas”
(4.43)
31. “Interview
segment 14” (4.48)
32. “Unknown
music segment 3” (2.44)
33. “Unknown
music segment 4” (1.52)
34. “Dan
McClosky Farewell” (0.34)
35. “Unknown
music segment 5” (1.34)
36. “Alimony
Blues” (3.30)
First released
on the posthumous LP-2 “Bloomfield - A Retrospective” from 1983.
The interview is
used between tracks. Track (1) is MB
speaking of the old days in
Chicago while he
plays the piano. It is recorded in the home of MB on a home recorder.
In the interview
MB talks about Paul Butterfield and how he feared him in his younger
days in Chicago.
He also talks about how he met Buddy Miles during a Mitch Ryder
session and how
Electric Flag was rounded up. The absolute gem is the recording from
Fillmore
where BB King calls MB on to the stage,
“Come on up with us Mike. Michael!
Come up. Even if
you don’t play, come on up and let us see you any-way! There he is,
lay it on him.
Michael!” MB explains that he had to come up and play the best he could,
and then follows
a fabulous solo with MB giving his best and BB falling in. A tape – no,
a music historic
collaboration - like that should have been used in one of all the “duet”
records that BB
has released the last 10 years. MB leaves the stage saying: “I wanna
thank you Ladies
and Gentleman. Remember everything I ever learned everything I ever
am, I owe to
this man, the main man, the King of the Blues, the one and only, BB King!”
The “unknown
music segments” are live recordings made for the interview, the rest are from
records.