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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Chicago Blues: The City and the Music

Chicago Blues: The City and the Music

Rowe, Mike
Radano, Ronald

Paperback

Blues & SoulMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0306801450
ISBN13: 9780306801457
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: Aug 1 1981
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.23
Language: English

Chicago has always had a reputation as a wide open town with a high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked politicians. It has also been the home for countless black musicians and the birthplace of a distinctly urban blues-more sophisticated, cynical, and street-smart than the anguished songs of the Mississippi delta-a music called the Chicago blues. This is the history of that music and the dozens of black artists who congregated on the South and Near West Sides. Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Tampa Red, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, Otis Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson, Junior Wells, Eddie Taylor-all of these giants played throughout the city and created a musical style that had imitators and influence all over the world.

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