For the past few months, the great Chicago blues harmonica player Sugar Blue has been on the run – from the coronavirus. His flight has taken him from Shanghai to Milan to the mountains of Italy to ...

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I’m not an especially fervent advocate of blues harmonica, but I do love the greats—both the Sonny Boy Williamsons, Big Walter Horton, much of Charlie Musselwhite‘s innovative output. But for me no ...

The blues world was changed forever on a sunny day around 1960 when a little boy walked into a five-and-dime in Los Angeles. “I was 8, maybe 9 when I saw it, all shiny in a display case,” says Billy ...

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Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

The blues is often described as the most American of all musical forms. Yet one of its key sounds-the harmonica-came from Germany. Just in time for the annual Chicago Blues Festival, German Consul ...

Sep. 10—As a college student, Russ Green got enthralled by the guitar wizardry of the late, great Jimi Hendrix. He also didn't have a lot of money in those days at Southern Illinois University in ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --The Chicago Blues Festival begins today at Millennium Park and runs through Sunday. Admission to the fest is free. Those flying out of town will get a taste of the fest at O'Hare. In ...

“Dancing Aloud,” a sign said. On stage, guitarist Corey Dennison, 43, white and well tattooed, had just opened an instrumental conversation with a grandfatherly figure in a White Sox cap. “This is my ...