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Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story at UpstateFilms/Woodstock

SUNDAY DEC 16 4:30 at Upstate/Woodstock w/ Post-Screening Q&A with Gabe Butterfield & later that evening at Colony - Gabe Butterfield & Friends play the music of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band

The film: Paul Butterfield was a white, teen-age harmonica player who grew up on Chicagos south side where he learned the blues harp from the original black masters who performed nightly in his own back yard.
Muddy Waters became Pauls mentor and lifelong friend, happy to share his wisdom and expertise with such a gifted young acolyte. Butterfields interracial band, featuring the twin guitar sound of Michael Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop, the rhythm section of Sam Lay and Jerome Arnold and the keyboards of Mark Naftalin, added a rock edge to the Chicago blues. This struck a chord with the vast white rock audience and rejuvenated worldwide interest in the blues. The bands first LP, released in 1965, was named #11 Blues Album of All Time by Downbeat. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 making him one of a handful of musicians inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Blues Halls of Fame, alongside other legendary artists including B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Billie Holiday and Eric Clapton. The film features Butterfield, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King, Happy Traum, Bob Dylan and many more.

SUNDAY DEC 16 4:30 at Upstate/Woodstock w/ Post-Screening Q&A with Gabe Butterfield & later that evening at Colony - Gabe Butterfield & Friends play the music of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band
(US / 2018 / Directed by John Anderson )