What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Friday, April 19, 2013.
Tag: Muddy Waters
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Eddie C. Campbell
Blues guitarist Eddie C. Campbell needs help getting home after a heart attack and stroke on the road in Germany.
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Tail Dragger
The Secret History of Chicago: a Howlin’ Wolf imitator who did time for shooting a fellow bluesman dead.
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Robert Petway
In 1941 obscure bluesman Robert Petway cut “Catfish Blues,” the inspiration for Muddy Waters’s “Rollin’ Stone”
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Pete Cosey
Late guitar genius Pete Cosey, most famous for his role in Miles Davis’s electric bands, never recorded under his own name
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The Reader’s guide to the Chicago Blues Festival
There’s more than Mavis at Blues Fest: other must-see acts include Texas Johnny Brown, Floyd Taylor, and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band
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Artist on Artist: Charlie Musselwhite talks to Rockin’ Johnny Burgin
Blues harmonica great Charlie Musselwhite talks to local guitar hero Rockin’ Johnny Burgin
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The Reader’s Guide to the Chicago Blues Festival
Early this year, citing financial crisis, the city of Chicago threatened to consolidate or eliminate most of its free lakefront music festivals, or at least to start charging admission to some of them. The cover-charge idea died on the vine, but four events—Viva! Chicago, the Country Music Festival, Celtic Fest, and the Gospel Music Festival—have […]
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Willie Buck
Mississippi-born guitarist still plays at local clubs
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Music-driven movies a cure for festival angst
Three movies about music lift spirits at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival.