Little-known Chicago blues-rock wizard Zach Prather has found his crowd in Europe

Thanks in part to a long partnership with the late Cash McCall, Prather has played with the likes of Willie Dixon, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, and Etta James.

Since 2004 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 first place.

<a href="https://everland-music.bandcamp.com/album/cook-county-released-1978-2019">COOK COUNTY – Released (1978) 2019 by Cook County</a>

The Everland Music reissue of Cook County’s 1978 LP Released

Zach Prather released Freak in 2008 with the band Slight Return.

Zach Prather’s latest single, “We,” came out in February 2019.