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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: A band with a new tradition of blues

Tracy Thomas, Melody Maker, 19 March 1966

TO A FIVE-year-old child, the blues are several colours, one for the sky, one for his eyes, one for Daddy's new car. To a forsaken lover, the blues is the emptiness inside. To the American Negro, the blues are a way of life, a method of communicating.

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