PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND FAMILY TREE

This family tree is the work of Bruno Ceriotti. Help in putting this together has been provided by David Dann, Randy M. Foley, John H. Warburg, and Steve Frankel, to whom I'm most grateful.


THE BUTTERCUPS #1 (1961 - 1962)

1) Paul Vaughan 'Butter' Butterfield vocals, harp

2) Elvin Richard Bishop acoustic guitar


THE BUTTERCUPS #2 (1962 - 1963) / THE SALT AND PEPPERS SHAKERS (1962) / THE SOUTH SIDE OLYMPIC BLUES TEAM (1962 - 1963)

1) Paul Butterfield vocals, harp

2) Elvin Bishop guitar

3) Bobby Wilson bass

4) Teddy Wilson drums
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5) Mark 'Nafty' Naftalin piano (occasional member)
6) Michael Allen 'Mike' Bloomfield guitar (occasional member)


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND #1 (1964)
1) Paul Butterfield vocals, harp, guitar, keyboards, flute
2) Sam Lay drums
3) Romeo Maurice Arnold (aka Jerome Arnold) bass
4) Albert 'Abe' Smothers (aka 'Little Smokey' Smothers) guitar


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND #2 (1964 - MAR or APR 1965)

1) Paul Butterfield

2) Jerome Arnold

3) Sam Lay
4) Elvin Bishop guitar


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND # (MAR or APR 1965 - SEPT 8, 1965)

1) Paul Butterfield

2) Elvin Bishop rhythm guitar

3) Jerome Arnold

4) Sam Lay

5) Mike Bloomfield lead guitar


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND #4 (SEPT 9, 1965 - DEC 1965)

1) Paul Butterfield

2) Elvin Bishop

3) Jerome Arnold

4) Sam Lay

5) Mike Bloomfield

6) Mark Naftalin keyboards


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND #5 (DEC 1965)

1) Paul Butterfield

2) Elvin Bishop

3) Jerome Arnold

4) Mike Bloomfield

5) Mark Naftalin

6) Billy Warren drums


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND #6 (DEC 1965 - FEB 2?, 1967)

1) Paul Butterfield

2) Elvin Bishop

3) Jerome Arnold

4) Mike Bloomfield

5) Mark Naftalin

6) Billy Davenport drums


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND #7 (FEB 2?, 1967 - SPRING 1967)

1) Paul Butterfield

2) Elvin Bishop now also on lead guitar

3) Jerome Arnold

4) Mark Naftalin

5) Billy Davenport


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUED BAND #8 (SPRING 1967 - FALL 1967)

1) Paul Butterfield

2) Elvin Bishop

3) Jerome Arnold

4) Mark Naftalin

5) Billy Davenport

6) Keith Johnson trumpet, piano

7) Charles Eugene "Gene" Dinwiddie alto sax, sopran sax, tenor sax 

8) David Sanborn tenor sax


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND #9 (FALL 1967 - ca. OCT 1968)

1) Paul Butterfield

2) ) Elvin Bishop

3) Mark Naftalin

4) Keith Johnson

5) Gene Dinwiddie

6) Dave Sanborn

7) Charles 'Bugsy' Maugh vocals, bass

8) Phillip Sanford 'Phil' Wilson drums


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND #10 (ca. OCT 1968 - ca. FEB 1969)

1) Paul Butterfield
 2) Keith Johnson
3) Gene Dinwiddie
4) Dave Sanborn
5) Bugsy Maugh
6) Phil Wilson


 PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND #11 (ca. FEB 1969 - 1969)
1) Paul Butterfield
2) Keith Johnson
3) Gene Dinwiddie
4) Dave Sanborn
5) Phil Wilson
6) Rod Hicks bass
7) Steve Madaio trumpet
8) Howard 'Buzzy' Feiten guitar, organ, french horn


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND #12 (1969 - 1970)

1) Paul Butterfield

2) Gene Dinwiddie

3) Dave Sanborn

4) Phil Wilson

5) Rod Hicks

6) Steve Madaio

7) Buzzy Feiten

8) Ted Harris keyboards


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND #13 (1970 - 1971)

1) Paul Butterfield

2) Gene Dinwiddie

3) Rod Hicks

4) Ralph Walsh guitar

5) George Davidson drums

6) Trevor Lawrence baritone sax


PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND #14 (1971 - ca. NOV 1971)

1) Paul Butterfield

2) Gene Dinwiddie

3) Rod Hicks

4) Ralph Walsh

5) Trevor Lawrence

6) Dennis Whitted drums