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Home » Butterfield Blues Band

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Posted inMusic

The Chicago Loop’s sole hit featured guitar legend Mike Bloomfield

by Steve Krakow October 9, 2020August 18, 2021

The Chicago Loop never outdid their first 45, despite a wild psychedelic single in 1968 that holds up great today.

Posted inMusic

Remembering Triad Radio, where the usual was unusual

by Robert Marovich July 24, 2020August 18, 2021

Triad Radio, Chicago’s pioneering experiment in commercial free-form radio, left the airwaves in 1977. Now longtime program director Saul Smaizys is moving its archives online.

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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.

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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Dean Milano

by Chicago Reader May 30, 2012August 19, 2021

Since the 60s, versatile but anonymous journeyman Dean Milano has played in too many bands to list

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