Few blues musicians who traveled from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago could have imagined how profoundly their songs would ...

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It begins with a feeling – raw, electric, and unmistakably alive. The Chicago Blues isn’t just music; it’s a migration of ...

The 2025 edition of the Chicago Blues Festival has one of the stronger lineups in recent memory—its mix of hallowed veterans and up-and-comers suggests that the idiom remains very healthy. The ...

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In 2010, a day after drumming before 27,000 blues fans, with pop star John Mayer’s trio at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in a Bridgeview soccer stadium, prolific session musician Steve Jordan ...

Fresh from winning the Connecticut Blues Challenge, New Haven’s Chicago Dawgs has a fundraising gig planned Dec. 28 at Toad’s Place to help pay the freight for a trip to Memphis to compete with 100 ...

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