Nick Gravenites wrote "Born in Chicago", the first song by the Butterfield Blues band that many people heard. It is autobiographical to an extent, not really about Butterfield.

Gravenites was a angry kid who liked Blues clubs. The better known players in BBB were pretty well upper and middle class kids. The BBB would not have been the same without his working with various members and getting them together and getting White kids accepted in tough Blues clubs.