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Phil Man didn’t eclipse his older sibling Buddy’s status being a blues superstar, and the truth is, Phil’s funky make of blues had not been captured correctly for posterity. But he continued to be an active appeal for the Chicago circuit, pursuing in his sibling’s footsteps and patiently looking forward …

With regards to blues, Chicago’s strictly a electric guitar and harmonica town. Saxophonists who earn a living leading a blues music group in the Windy Town are scarce as hen’s tooth. But Eddie Shaw did precisely that since his longtime employer, Howlin’ Wolf, passed away in 1976. The powerfully built …

To listen to tenor saxist A.C. Reed bemoan his destiny on-stage, one might glean the impression that he really detests his work. But from the tongue-in-cheek issue — Reed’s raspy, gutbucket blowing and laid-back vocals belie any feeling of boredom. Sax-blowing blues bandleaders are scarce as hen’s tooth in Chicago; …

Maurice John Vaughn’s 1984 debut place, Generic Blues Record, came packaged in an ordinary white coat, its name unceremoniously stamped on its front side like a bundle of no-brand grain on the grocer’s shelf. It appeared as if the cleverest of promotion ploys, however in reality, it had been a …

b. John Mayon Walker, 27 June 1927, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA, d. 27 November 1999, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Of partially Native American share, Walker learned to try out several tools in his teenagers but was known mainly like a pianist. He started touring with blues rings from 1947, playing piano and …

If there is a far more immaculate glide guitarist surviving in Chicago through the 1950s and ’60s than Earl Hooker, his name has yet to surface area. Boasting a fretboard contact so even and clean that each be aware rang as apparent and precise being a bell, Hooker was an …

There’s hardly any sound within the blues as conveniently digestible, accessible, immediately recognizable, so when an easy task to play and sing because the music of Jimmy Reed. His best-known music — “Baby, WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE Me to accomplish,” “Shiny Lights, Big Town,” “Honest I REALLY DO,” “You don’t …