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Fred Below was created in Chicago about Sept 16, 1926. Below performed drums in senior high school and continued to review percussion in the Roy C. Knapp College of Percussion. Mainly a jazz drummer at that time, he performed bebop and became a member of the Military within the 427th …

Common wisdom says that Muddy Waters was the person in charge of turbo charging the Delta blues and creating what we have now call Chicago blues. Waters’ importance is certainly inestimable, but to place all of the credit at his foot is to disregard the contributions of these who quite …