Mike Bloomfield Radio Show

This series was a four-hour radio broadcast originally heard over WJFF 90.5 FM, Jeffersonville, NY, on July 27, 2008, in celebration of Michael Bloomfield's 65th birthday anniversary. The program was produced and hosted by David Dann and featured the voices of Allen Bloomfield, Toby Byron, Norman Dayron, Mark Naftalin and others, plus hard-to-find performances by Bloomfield, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bob Dylan and others. Listen to it on the Web by visiting the WJFF Archive or by connecting directly by using these links:

Part I / The Early Years:

http://www.wjffradio.org/parchive/m3u.php?mp3fil=5259725

Part II / Butterfield & The Flag:

http://www.wjffradio.org/parchive/m3u.php?mp3fil=5260052

Part III / Guitar God No More:

http://www.wjffradio.org/parchive/m3u.php?mp3fil=5260002

Part IV / The Last Years

http://www.wjffradio.org/parchive/m3u.php?mp3fil=5260325

Thanks to David Dann at Michael Bloomfield: An American Guitarist

Michael demonstrates his fire-breathing trick, a stunt he often performed while playing "East-West" with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 1966.

Photo courtesy of

Deborah Chesher