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- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Feb 11, 2021
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Johnny Shines belongs in the pantheon alongside Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf
This powerful bluesman spent the late 30s on the road with the great Robert Johnson, then lived long enough to win a W.C. Handy Award in the 90s.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jan 28, 2021
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The Aces helped invent the sound of electric Chicago blues
They’re best known as a backing band for Junior Wells and Little Walter, but they took the lead when it came to the future of the genre.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 20, 2020
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Give your money to Mary Lane
The 84-year-old Chicago blueswoman should be a legend. She can barely pay her bills.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jan 27, 2020
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Slide guitarist John Littlejohn brought Mississippi country blues to Chicago
His raw style grew from the same soil that produced Elmore James, but he never became a star outside the Windy City.
- Music, Music Feature Oct 11, 2019
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David Dann on his new biography of blues-rock guitarist Michael Bloomfield
From Glencoe to Monterey Pop to oblivion: Bloomfield’s huge talent and unique style changed the instrument forever, but while Clapton and Hendrix entered the canon, he faded away.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Feb 26, 2018
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Blues drummer Sam Lay has made five careers’ worth of music
Sharp-dressed drummer Sam Lay has played with Dylan and Howlin' Wolf, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
- Music, In Rotation Jan 23, 2017
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Singer-songwriter Adam Gottlieb on an album to fortify fighters for justice
Plus: Blues musician Andy Willis on the night Howlin’ Wolf got him, Reader writer Leor Galil on Ela Stiles’s mystical pop, and more
