Sorry we are a day late with this, but there was a clash with Rudy Vallee yesterday – maybe an indication of the eclectic nature of Acrobat’s musical church. Mike Bloomfield was born in Chicago in 1943, and early in life was an aficionado of the city's many blues artists and clubs, and he rapidly became a part of the scene in the early 60s. He was spotted by Columbia's legendary A&R man John Hammond, and eventually joined the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, who became one of the vanguard of blues bands in the mid to late '60s boom. Bloomfield's style, technique and sound was much admired by such legendary  performers as Muddy Waters and B.B. King, and he was undoubtedly one of the greatest of the white blues guitarists of his era. He was an active session player, and featured heavily in Bob Dylan's early forays into the electric idiom, notably on the "Highway 61" album. His career was not as illustrious as it should have been, a reflection both of his distaste for the commercial limelight and his drug habit, the latter of which eventually led to his premature death in 1981 at the age of just 37. Acrobat has an album of Mike Bloomfield's solo work during the latter part of his career. For full details click here.