Career
His playing appears on the albums The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and East-West. Jerome Arnold is a younger brother of Billy Boy Arnold, as is harmonicist Augustus "Gus" Arnold (who around 1969 changed his name to "Julio Finn").
His playing appears on the albums The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and East-West. Jerome Arnold is a younger brother of Billy Boy Arnold, as is harmonicist Augustus "Gus" Arnold (who around 1969 changed his name to "Julio Finn").
Arnold was an original member of the Butterfield band, and was subsequently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. 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.