Chicago Blues: The City and the Music

Chicago Blues: The City and the Music

Chicago Blues: The City and the Music

Chicago Blues: The City and the Music

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780306801457
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 08/22/1981
Series: Quality Paperbacks Series
Pages: 226
Sales rank: 914,832
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mike Rowe is a noted British blues historian.
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