At 90 years old, Mississippi-born guitarist Jimmy Johnson is a walking master class in modern blues greatness.
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Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy did much more than join the Blues Brothers
By the time Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi recruited him, Murphy had worked as a sideman for the likes of Howlin’ Wolf, Memphis Slim, and James Cotton.
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At age 88, late-blooming guitarist Jimmy Johnson enters his fifth decade in the blues
Jimmy Johnson—older brother of Syl—started out playing soul, but he came into his own as a bluesman in the late 1970s.
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Rauner won’t sign automatic voter registration bill until ‘corrections’ are made, and other Chicago news
Also, a group of pastors is suing the state over the gay conversion therapy ban.
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When senators start looking like aldermen
JP Morgan Chase shows how money buys attention at every level of politics
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Party planning
Tony Peraica welcomes Paul Vallas to the GOP and plots a takeover of the party’s state leadership.