chicago blues
- Chicago Blues Archives - run by the Chicago Public Library
- Corky Siegel's Planet - Member of a famous chicago blues band in the 60-70's.
- Bang - High energy dance, blues, and rock band from Chicago. Site includes gig dates, and a song list.
- Chicago Blues X-plosion - Thursday 10-12pm Eastern on WRMN-AM 1410. Includes live blues listings for Chicago, playlists and links.
- Mojo Blues Band - Chicago blues in the style of the 1940s and 1950s is on this band's menu. The web site of this Vienna, Austria based band offers band information, press reviews, discography, tour schedule and sound samples.
- Hello Dave - Chicago-based band blending elements of rock, pop, folk, and blues. Site contains press kit, tour dates, and multimedia files. [May not work in all browsers.]
- Delmark Records - Chicago, USA-based label recording Blues and Jazz since 1953. Includes an online catalog, MP3s and audio reviews, label history and an email newsletter.
- Hot House - Chicago performing arts center presenting a wide range of musical expressions including Jazz, Blues, and World Music.
- La route du blues - Guide autant touristique que musical sur la route qui va de La Nouvelle Orléans à Chicago à la recherche des racines du blues et de ses pionniers.
- Rollin' Fork Blues Band - Good old Chicago Blues. Bandvorstellung mit Biografie, Fotos, Terminen und Kontakt.
- Ronny and the Rockits - Blues, soul, and rock-n-roll in and around Chicago. Photographs and show schedule.
- Chicago Blues Archives - Features bibliography, downloads, history resources and oral history interviews. Gathered by the Chicago Public Library.
- Clearwater, Eddy - Biography, photos, reviews, merchandise, and tour dates for the Chicago blues artist.
- Norwood Blues - Very highly competitive baseball for the college bound 18 and under player located in Chicago, Illinois
- Fox Valley Blues Umpires Association - Provides baseball and softball umpiring services in Northern Illinois, including Chicago and suburbs.
- Last Meals by R. A. Barrington: Celebrate Your Freedom - Confronts the idea of executions of death-row prisoners. Then in timely measure contrasts it with the possibility of death by terrorism. Paintings of the Signature Room of the John Hancock Building atop Chicago.
- Chicago Sun-Times: Varsity Blues - Roger Ebert's review.
- Chicago Blues Hockey - Rosters, schedules and contacts for our teams as well as links to related sites of interest for those interested in youth hockey around the Chicagoland area. Mite to Midget.
- Eric Noden - American Roots Music - Eric Noden, Chicago based singer, guitar player and piano player specializing in blues, ragtime and original material. Old-time blues players like Rev. Gary Davis, Jimmy Yancey and Big Bill Broonzy greatly influenced Eric's sound. Eric's record 55 Highway is available from Diving Duck Records.
- Dixie's Treibhaus Ventil - In einem originellen Webauftritt stellt die Dixieland- Band, aus dem 3-Länder-Eck rund um den Bodensee, ihre Geschichte und die Musiker vor. Mit ihrem professionell vorgetragenen Dixieland, Swing, Chicago und Blues ist sie in ganz Europa für alle Anlässe und Events zu buchen.
The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by adding electricity, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes saxophone to the basic string/harmonica Delta blues. The music developed mainly as a result of the "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial cities of the North, and Chicago in particular, in the first half of the twentieth century.
Chicago blues musicians include:
Big Maceo Merriweather
Big Walter Horton
Billy Boy Arnold
Billy Branch
Blues Brothers
Paul Butterfield
Buddy Guy
Champion Jack Dupree
Earl Hooker
Elmore James
Hound Dog Taylor
Howlin' Wolf
J.B. Hutto
J.B. Lenoir
Jimmy Cotton
Jimmy Dawkins
Jimmy Rogers
John Brim
John Primer
Johnny Shines
Junior Wells
Kansas Joe McCoy
Koko Taylor
Kokomo Arnold
Charlie Musselwhite
Little Walter
Lonnie Brooks
Luther Allison
Magic Sam
Magic Slim
Mighty Joe Young
Muddy Waters
Otis Rush
Otis Spann
Papa Charlie McCoy
Paul Butterfield
Robert Lockwood Jr.
Robert Nighthawk
Snooky Pryor
Son Seals
Sonny Boy Williamson
Willie Dixon
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