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Home » Bo Diddley

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Posted inMusic

The Aces helped invent the sound of electric Chicago blues

by Steve Krakow January 28, 2021August 18, 2021

The Aces are best known as a backing band, but they took the lead when it came to the future of the blues.

Posted inMusic

Thirty-five moments that brought Chicago music to the world

by the Arts & Business Council of Chicago July 23, 2020August 18, 2021

The Year of Chicago Music has had less music in it than anybody anticipated, but we still have plenty to celebrate.

Posted inMusic

Billy Boy Arnold helped the blues give birth to rock ’n’ roll

by David Whiteis June 3, 2019August 18, 2021

Billy Boy Arnold might be best known as Bo Diddley’s 1950s harmonica player, but he’s 25 years into a comeback of his own.

Posted inMusic

Muddy Waters drummer Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith never escaped the sideman shadow

by Steve Krakow February 13, 2019August 18, 2021

Even when Willie “Big Eyes” Smith won a Grammy at the end of his life, he shared it with pianist Pinetop Perkins.

Posted inMusic

Blues drummer Sam Lay has made five careers’ worth of music

by Steve Krakow February 26, 2018January 31, 2022

Sharp-dressed drummer Sam Lay has played with Dylan and Howlin’ Wolf, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Posted inMusic

Otis ‘Big Smokey’ Smothers recorded with Howlin’ Wolf even before his own first session

by Steve Krakow March 28, 2017August 18, 2021

Guitarist Big Smokey Smothers wrote for Muddy Waters and partnered with Freddie King, but his traditional style of Chicago electric blues didn’t help him make his own name.

Posted inMusic

Add blues pianist Barrelhouse Chuck to the list of greats lost in 2016

by Steve Krakow January 3, 2017August 18, 2021

Barrelhouse Chuck built upon piano traditions established by the likes of Sunnyland Slim, Pinetop Perkins, and Little Brother Montgomery.

Posted inBlogs

CIMMFest opening night: The Smart Studios Story revisits the Madison recording studio that helped birth indie rock

by J.R. Jones April 11, 2016August 18, 2021

The Smart Studios Story, opening the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, revisits the Madison recording studio that nurtured the indie rock of the 90s.

Posted inMusic

Arvo Zylo of Blood Rhythms on songs the Cramps taught us

by Leor Galil May 20, 2015August 18, 2021

Current musical obsessions of Arvo Zylo of Blood Rhythms, WZRD DJ Sarah Moskowitz, and the Reader’s Leor Galil

Posted inMusic

The Secret History of Chicago Music: Captain Walter Dyett

by Chicago Reader October 17, 2013December 21, 2021

DuSable High School band director Captain Walter Dyett taught generations of future stars.

Posted inMusic

The Secret History of Chicago Music: Jody Williams

by Chicago Reader March 21, 2012August 19, 2021

Lead guitar on Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love?”, Jody Williams is gigging again after 35 years.

Posted inBlogs

Who Do You Love?

by Cliff Doerksen April 13, 2010August 19, 2021

Harry Hawks redefines the rep tie

Posted inBlogs

Music-driven movies a cure for festival angst

by Andrea Gronvall October 2, 2008August 19, 2021

Three movies about music lift spirits at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival.

Posted inBlogs

Bo Diddley no longer able to write songs about Bo Diddley

by Miles Raymer June 2, 2008August 19, 2021

RIP Bo Diddley

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