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Probably one of the most popular clean spirit groups of the first ’70s didn’t hail from Philadelphia or Memphis, both towns known for nice, string-laden spirit. Rather, the Chi-Lites had been from Chicago, a city better known because of its gritty metropolitan blues and traveling R&B. Led by vocalist Eugene …

Chicagoan Eugene Record became thinking about music young, first picking right up the guitar. A large impact was his old sister, an achieved pianist who used traditional music everyday within the family room of his house. Traditional music motifs show up later on in Record’s initial tunes and record productions. …