Jerome Arnold
Jerome Arnold was born in Chicago, Illinois, Arnold was an original member of the Butterfield band, he was subsequently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. His playing appears on the albums The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and East-West. He was a member of the Butterfield Band at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, and not only appeared with the band there, but was among the musicians who supported Bob Dylan on the Newport Folk Festival stage for Dylan's controversial amplified instrument performance at that Festival.
Jerome Arnold
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- Name
- Jerome Arnold
- Birth Name
- Romeo Maurice Arnold
- Born
- 26 November 1936
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- Occupation
- Musician
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
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Jerome Arnold was born in Chicago, Illinois, Arnold was an original member of the Butterfield band, he was subsequently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. His playing appears on the albums The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and East-West. He was a member of the Butterfield Band at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, and not only appeared with the band there, but was among the musicians who supported Bob Dylan on the Newport Folk Festival stage for Dylan's controversial amplified instrument performance at that Festival.
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Jerome Arnold (born 1936) is a musician, of American nationality. The musician was born in Chicago. Languages used include English.
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A younger brother of Billy Boy Arnold, as is harmonicist Augustus "Gus" Arnold (who around 1969 changed his name to "Julio Finn"). He also appears on Billy Boy Arnold's 1965 Prestige LP, More Blues on the South Side.
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• Name — Jerome Arnold • Birth Name — Romeo Maurice Arnold • Born — 26 November 1936 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, U.S. • Genre — * Chicago blues • blues-rock • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — Bass • Past Member Of — The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
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• The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival (2007) (Arnold plays on one song from 1965: "Maggie's Farm". Al Kooper plays bass on "Like a Rolling Stone")
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1936
Jerome Arnold was born on 26 November 1936.
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With Howlin' Wolf • The Real Folk Blues (Chess, recorded 1956–65, released 1965) With Billy Boy Arnold • More Blues on the South Side (Prestige, 1965) With The Paul Butterfield Blues Band • The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Elektra, 1965) • East-West (Elektra, 1966) • Festival – The Newport Folk Festival 1965 (Vanguard, 1967) (one live track: "Mellow Down Easy") With Bob Dylan • No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (Columbia, 2005) (one track: "Maggie's Farm" (live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1965)
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- 1.Eagle, Bob. Blues - A Regional Experience. Praeger. 70. 2013. 9780313344237.
- 2."The Paul Butterfield Blues Band", Los Angeles Times, June 23, 1994.
- 3."Butterfield Blues Band Offers Moving Experience", Montreal Gazette, May 29, 1967.
- 4.Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2015: Paul Butterfield Blues Band drummer Sam Lay's Cleveland ties make the induction even more special. Cleveland.com. 12 March 2015.
- 5.ProQuest Archiver: Titles. Boston Herald.
- 6.Edward Komara, Peter Lee (eds), The Blues Encyclopedia, Routledge, 2004, p. 444;
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