Here’s a little departure from the usual Old Time or button accordion music regular readers are used to hearing around this joint. Not sure what’s the best part of this video – Mike Bloomfield talking about the music, or Buddy Miles’ great vocals. Bloomfield was previously playing guitar in the Butterfield Band and as well played on Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited recording.

Bloomfield went on to work on Super Session – great album with Al Kooper and Stephen Stills. He died in his late 30s in 81 of a drug overdose.

Many years after this was recorded we saw the Buddy Miles Band play in Chicago with our friend Stagg. It was at Buddy Guy’s Legends and it was an excellent show. Miles died in 2008 at age 60 of heart failure.