Prime Movers Blues Band

Although they never released a record during their existence, the Prime Movers were a pivotal band in Southeastern Michigan during the mid- to late '60s. Where many of their Michigan contemporaries played straight rock & roll suitable for teen clubs and frat houses, the Prime Movers were a blues band. They were purists, inspired first by classic Chicago blues and then by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and other acts that found white rock fans taking on the blues with credibility. Led by brothers Michael and Dan Erlewine, the Prime Movers set out on the same path as Butterfiel...