According to Steve Hoffman site it will be a 4 disc box. Including a doco DVD.


From Al Kooper


"I just spent the better part of a year producing a Michael Bloomfield box set. I really wanted it to be in everyone's hands by his 70th birthday, but I really wanted it MORE to be exactly what he would have wanted, so it's taking a wee bit more time. There is no release date yet, but we are extremely close to being done. I still miss him everyday of my life and feel so lucky that I got to play and spend the time that I did with him. Sooo hang on in there and it will be in your hands as soon as possible." – @l k%per"

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Product Description
From His Head to His Heart to His Hands, the 3 CD/1 DVD anthology features released and unreleased gems from solo sessions to live performances from The Fillmore East and Fillmore West, The Bottom Line and other historic venues. This compilation also will feature a fascinating new mini-documentary combining vintage audio interviews with Bloomfield and live performances with new reflections from his friends, collaborators and admirers.

Guitarist Mike Bloomfield never fully got his due as one of the go-to sidemen of his generation or for his importance as a common thread in the patchwork of genres that changed the face of rock and roll in the 1960s and 1970s - until now. Bloomfield's incredible career will be chronicled in From His Head to His Heart to His Hands.

Raised on the North Side of Chicago, Bloomfield's guitar prowess was immediately obvious; emulating the architects of the genre and fusing their style to the more experimental strains of 1960s pop and rock. Legendary A&R man John Hammond saw the same sort of raw talent in him that he saw in some of his greatest discoveries, from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen, and would sign Bloomfield to Columbia Records. Bloomfield would make history for the label as a session guitarist for Dylan's iconic Highway 61 Revisited in 1965, featuring the incendiary "Like a Rolling Stone."

Bloomfield was an original member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, contributing to their 1965 self-titled debut and follow-up East-West (1966); the latter album s title track, co-written by Bloomfield, is regarded as a high watermark in rock history, combining elements of blues, jazz, psychedelia and Eastern musical concepts in equal measure. From there, Bloomfield founded the famed "American Music Band" The Electric Flag, and fronted it into 1968. Also in 1968, Mike partook in the recording of Moby Grape's Grape Jam and the platinum-selling Super Session LP, a collaboration with fellow session legend Al Kooper.

As the decade wore on, Bloomfield would continue to release innovative, guitar-heavy works, including his debut solo album It's Not Killing Me and My Labors with Electric Flag member Nick Gravenites, both released in 1969. The remainder of his career was perhaps best known for more session highlights, including work on Muddy Waters Fathers And Sons and Janis Joplin's solo debut I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! - all the while recording a series of highly-regarded solo works.

Bloomfield died at the too-young age of 37; only afterward did his reputation solidify as a building block of the 1960s' popular music evolution, his peerless guitar work one of the few common threads in a decade of musical change.

At long last, Bloomfield will truly get his due with From His Head to His Heart to His Hands.

DVD - SWEET BLUES: A FILM ABOUT MIKE BLOOMFIELD
A Ravin' Film. Directed by Bob Sarles. Produced and Edited by Bob Sarles and Christina Keating. Director of photography: Ted Leyhe. Producers: Ted Leyhe, Larry Milburn & Bruce Schmiechen.

Amazon USA
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G2DC2EG/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00G2DC2EG/?tag=imwan-21

Now that's what I'm talking about!

This from Al's New Music For Old People newsletter -

"Howdy music lovers!

Still embroiled finishing up the Mike Bloomfield boxset but I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel and I think I have maybe a few more days left of work."

Al's newlsletter link if anyone is interested is here - comes out every Friday, great music to discover here -

http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0013vIFtv3U ... rhsVxV5g==

I am so psyched for this. And for the fact that Al Kooper is behind this you know this will be a quality and loving compilation.

Disk 1 - Roots

•I'm a Country Boy (previously unreleased)
•Judge, Judge (previously unreleased)
•Hammond's Rag (previously unreleased)
•I've Got You in the Palm of My Hand
•I've Got My Mojo Workin'
•Like a Rolling Stone (Instrumental) - performed by Bob Dylan (previously unreleased)
•Tombstone Blues (Alternate Chambers Brothers Version) - performed by Bob Dylan (previously unreleased)
•Michael Speaks About Paul Butterfield
•Born in Chicago - performed by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
•Blues with a Feeling - performed by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
•East-West - performed by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
•Killing Floor - performed by The Electric Flag
•Texas - performed by The Electric Flag
•Susie's Shuffle (Live Jam) - performed by The Electric Flag (previously unreleased)
•Just a Little Something (Live) - performed by The Electric Flag (previously unreleased)
•Easy Rider - performed by The Electric Flag

Disk 2 - Jams
•Albert's Shuffle
•Stop
•His Holy Modal Majesty
•Opening Speech (Live)
•59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy) (Live) Hybrid Edit (previously unreleased)
•Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong (Live)
•Santana Clause (Live) (previously unreleased)
•The Weight (Live)
•Opening Speech (Live)
•One Way Out (Live)
•Her Holy Modal Highness (Live)
•Fat Grey Cloud (Live)
•Mary Ann (Live)
•That's All Right (Live)

Disk 3 - Last Licks
•I'm Glad I'm Jewish (Live)
•Men's Room - Spoken Word Segment from McCabe's (Live)
•Don't You Lie to Me (Live)
•Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had (Live) - performed by Muddy Waters
•Gypsy Good Time (Live)
•One Good Man - performed by Janis Joplin
•It's About Time (Live)
•Carmelita Skiffle (Live)
•Darktown Strutters Ball (Live)
•Don't Think About It Baby
•Jockey Blues/Old Folks Boogie (Live)
•A-Flat Boogaloo (Live)
•Glamour Girl (Live) (previously unreleased)
•Spoken Intro - Bob Dylan (Live) (previously unreleased)
•The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar (Live) - performed by Bob Dylan (previously unreleased)
•Hymn Time (Live Excerpt)

DVD
•Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield

This could have been a lot better! There are many unissued live tracks on Wolfgang's Vault from the Butterfield Blues Band, Electric Flag and solo and the Japanese versions of the excellent Live At Bill Graham's Fillmore West and My Labors have unissued live outtakes from the concerts that could have been added.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G2DC2EG/?tag=imwan-20

Release date Feb 4, 2014

Great news, I've been waiting for this for a long time. Looking forward to it.

Mmmm not what I was expecting. Was hoping for more unreleased live stuff.
What about more sessions with Muddy Waters?

See how the price for this goes.

I lucked out and got a review copy of the collection. I've gotten through the first two discs - so far so good. I can't wait to watch the DVD tomorrow!

It's not out until Feb 2014. How did you get it so early?

Hmm. I like Bloomfield. But I would watch the documentary DVD once at most, I already have much of this and $70 seems pricey for three CDs.

So, patience may be in order here.

Amazon has dropped the price to $54.00, so I could no longer justify not ordering it. Bloomfield lives.

I pre-ordered from amazon.co.uk about a month ago. It was then ~$45 [with shipping] but I see it's gone up now to ~$50

This has Dylan rarities--I'll probably pick it up eventually.

I picked this up today for $47.00 at my local indie. I've only started listening, but so far I'm loving it. What a player.

Ordered a copy yesterday from a Amazon seller.

This does sound pretty interesting.....

I was never into Mike years ago so now that I've picked up playing the guitar once again, I am intrigued on his sound so of course I bought the box set.

Looking forward to getting it soon.

This is my new favorite box set. I know many people will quibble about the songs selected by Al Kooper. I think that so many people will be introduced to Bloomfield through this box, that we will see a demand for more live archival releases. The thing is # 1 on Amazon's blues chart. Anything that restores Mike Bloomfield to his proper place ( as one of the best and most influential guitar players ever ) is OK by me.