A unique 1966 Fender Telecaster once owned and played by blues rock pioneer Mike Bloomfield has been listed for sale at Carter Vintage. The vintage gear emporium in Nashville, TN, is no stranger to ...

Less than a week after Mike Bloomfield's extravagantly painted 1966 Fender Telecaster made its way to the second-hand market, the Tele he played during Bob Dylan's infamous Newport Folk Festival set ...

Michael Bernard Bloomfield was born July 28, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. An indifferent student and self-described social outcast, Bloomfield immersed himself in the multi- cultural music world that ...

At one point in the mid/late ‘60s, Michael Bloomfield was considered by many as the country’s premiere blues-rock guitarist, seamlessly meshing the traditions of the genre’s past with the louder ...

Through a combination of journalistic objectivity, scholarly attention to detail and the passion of a fan, author David Dann accomplishes exactly what he professes to achieve in his 'Prologue' to ...

In August 1963, a yellow Telecaster emerged from Fender's original California factory, ending up two years later in the hands of a gifted young guitarist named Michael Bloomfield - who bought it after ...

Michael Bloomfield began playing in Chicago blues clubs while still in high school. By 1968 he was considered one of the best guitarists in the world along with Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. By that ...

Al Kooper and Michael Bloomfield found themselves in strange positions in the summer of 1968. Kooper had played the distinctive organ hook on Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” before joining the ...