Tag Archives: 1980 in Chicago

b. Walter Dixon, 28 January 1906, Somerville, Tx, USA, d. 7 Sept 1980, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Raised in farm function, Gray left house early and travelled, ultimately shifting north. In 1930, he dropped his view and two fingertips of his remaining submit a battle, and got to producing music for …

Chicago bluesman Blind Arvella Grey was created Walter Dixon in Somerville, TX, about January 28, 1906. A world-class raconteur, he vividly embellished the facts of his existence and never informed a particular tale the same manner twice, meaning the precise situation of his formative years are difficult to record with …

Among the truisms of pop music is the fact that within a style’s early years, novelty tracks are commonplace: the freshness and novelty from the music type lends itself to giggly comic tracks, and subsequently new viewers attracted with the laughter get subjected to the new sort of music. Jazz, …

b. 5 Dec 1938, Alabama, USA, d. 26 Dec 1980, Chicago, Illinois, USA. A western part Chicago blues guitarist within the 50s, Lyons worked well as an accompanist numerous performers, including Luther Allison, Jimmy Dawkins and Bobby Hurry. Unaccountably overlooked by Chicago record businesses, he was adopted by French blues …

The Legendary Blues Music group includes Calvin Jones (b.1926, Greenwood, Mississippi; bass, violin); Willie Smith (b.1935, Helena, Arkansas; drum); numerous others on vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica, and piano. Once the Muddy Waters music group quit the expert en masse in 1980, a lot of the sidemen trapped together and created …

b. 1894, Monmouth, Illinois, USA, d. 2 January 1980, Chicago, Illinois, USA. A university graduate, Williams was nicknamed ‘Printer ink’ by music artists; he was the very first, and in his period the most effective, black executive in america record sector. In 1924, he became a member of Paramount, which …

The Effigies were a significant element of Chicago’s seminal post-hardcore punk picture, along with Big Dark, Naked Raygun, and Hit Under. Their legacy isn’t as heralded as the previous two, partly because they didn’t force a lot of limitations, either thematically or stylistically. But that evaluation shortchanges the Effigies as …

A Chicago-based band that could only to push out a couple of recordings, the Bonemen of Barumba were founded by Tom Jonusaitis and Tag Panick in the suburbs of Chicago in 1980. During the period of another four years roughly, the music group would discharge two EPs (Bonemen of Barumba …