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The Secret History of Chicago Music
Mar 14, 2017
No less a bluesman than Muddy Waters called Forest City Joe a ‘great harp player’
Blues harpist Forest City Joe might be a legend today if he’d recorded more—or lived long enough to enjoy the 1960s blues revival.
By Steve Krakow
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Joe Bennie Pugh
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Hughes
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Arkansas
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Forrest City
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John Lee Williamson
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Rice Miller
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Sonny Boy Williamson I
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Sonny Boy Williamson II
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Big Joe Williams
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Aristocrat Records
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Chess Records
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Muddy Waters
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J.C. Coles
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Memory of Sonny Boy
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A Woman on Every Street
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Howlin' Wolf
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Memphis
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Three Aces
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Willie Love
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Otis Spann
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Tick Tock Lounge
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South Ellis Avenue
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Horseshoe Lake
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Alan Lomax
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Atlantic Records
Music
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Music Feature
Nov 25, 2015
You can do better than an iTunes gift card
Perhaps the music lovers in your life would enjoy 23 CDs of the Isley Brothers, two decades of the Staple Singers, or a half century of rural southern sounds from County Records.
By Peter Margasak
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Music Feature
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2015 holiday gift guide
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box sets
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Harry Bertoia
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Sonambient: Complete Collection
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Bob Dylan
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The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12
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The Isley Brothers
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Brad Mehldau
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10 Years Solo Live
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Small Faces
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The Decca Years
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Staple Singers
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Faith & Grace: A Family Journey 1953-1976
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Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings From the Upper Midwest
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Dust-to-Digital
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Alan Lomax
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Legends of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years of County Records
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Dave Freeman
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Ork Records
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Numero Group
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Terry Ork
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Tom Verlaine
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Richard Hell
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Alex Chilton
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Chris Stamey
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the Feelies
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The Velvet Underground
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The Complete Matrix Tapes
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Lou Reed
Music
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Music Feature
Nov 25, 2014
You have no excuse to give anyone a holiday album
Especially now that you know about these ten amazing box sets from the likes of Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Pierre Boulez, Captain Beefheart, and Wilco
By Peter Margasak
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Music Feature
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2014 holiday gift guide
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Captain Beefheart
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Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972
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Rip Rense
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Pierre Boulez
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The Complete Columbia Album Collection
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Ensemble InterContemporain
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Miles Davis
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Miles at the Fillmore
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Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3
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Steve Grossman
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Chick Corea
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Keith Jarrett
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Dave Holland
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Jack DeJohnette
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Airto Moreira
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Bob Dylan
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The Band
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The Complete Basement Tapes
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Clinton Heylin
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William Onyeabor
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Akos Rozmann
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12 Stations/Tolv Stationer (1978-2001)
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12 Stations
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Stephen O'Malley
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The Complete Dial Modern Jazz Sessions
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Charlie Parker
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Wardell Gray
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Duke Jordan
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Shorty Rogers
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Russ Freeman
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Erroll Garner
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Dodo Marmarosa
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Howard McGhee
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Little Green Men
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Wilco
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Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994-2014
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Jeff Tweedy
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Nels Cline
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John Stirratt
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Bill Bentley
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David Bither
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Fats Navarro
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Dizzy Gillespie
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Dexter Gordon
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Teddy Edwards
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Steve Marlow
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Jonathan Horwich
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Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings 1947-1959
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Alan Lomax
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Parchman Farm
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The Soul of Designer Records
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Style Wooten
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Roland Janes
Film
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Artist on Artist
Jan 6, 2014
Artist on Artist: Robbie Fulks talks to Steve Albini
"My mind seems to be this chaotic jukebox of obscure and unloved songs from the last 50 years."
By Peter Margasak
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Hideout
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Gone Away Backward
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Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
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Do the Math
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50-Vc. Doberman
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Annette Peacock
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Danny Barnes
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Alan Lomax
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Folkways
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Harry Smith
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Iain Burgess
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John Loder
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I'm the One
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Bob Weston
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Brian Paulson
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Richard Marx
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Twitter
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Ryan Adams
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Special Consensus
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Heather Whinna
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Bleader
Jul 3, 2013
Yeezus
and the Lomaxes
Why it's a great time to read about white people decoding black artists' art
By Miles Raymer
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Music
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Kanye
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Alan Lomax
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R. Kelly
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Eric Harvey
Music
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The Secret History of Chicago Music
Feb 23, 2012
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Blind Joel Taggart
This gospel singer and bluesman may have been the first guitar evangelist ever to make a record
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Blind Joel Taggart
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Vocalion Records
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Alan Lomax
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The Secret History of Chicago Music
Blogs
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Bleader
Jan 17, 2012
Nathan Salsburg stands up with
Affirmed
Lomax Archives producer Nathan Salsburg steps out from behind the board to release his own music
By Peter Margasak
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Post No Bills
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Nathan Salsburg
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Affirmed
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Twos and Fews
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Root Hog or Die
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Alan Lomax
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Whaur the Pig Gaed on the Spree
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Alasdair Roberts
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Scottish folk music
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Eight Belles Dreamt the Devil Was Dead
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Jim Elkington
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Lu
Blogs
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Bleader
Nov 18, 2009
Drag City Peers Into the Byways of Marrakech
Drag City celebrates the release of a compilation of Gnawan music on sublabel Twos and Fews with a listening party Thursday at Intuit.
By Peter Margasak
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Drag City
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Twos and Fews
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Nathan Salsburg
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Nimrod Workman
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Ouled Bambara: Portraits of Gnawa
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Intuit Gallery
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Caitlin McNally
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Alan Lomax
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Root Hog or Die
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