Tag Archives: Modern Electric Chicago Blues

It all began with a telephone call from Wesley Competition, who was on the Flamingo Membership on Chicago’s South Aspect, to Alligator Reports owner Bruce Iglauer. Competition was raving in regards to a brand-new find, a guitarist named Kid Seals. He kept the phone in direction of the bandstand, therefore …

Eminently with the capacity of serving up spot-on imitations of both Bobby “Blue” Bland and B.B. Ruler, Andrew Odom was also a guy of several interrelated nicknames: Tone of voice, Big Tone of voice, B.B., Small B.B., B.B. Junior. Maybe his chameleonic skills held him back again; Odom was a …

Tragically under-recorded until later in his career, Chicago blues guitarist Andrew Dark brown still had time more than enough to wax a small number of great singles through the mid-’60s and two ’80s albums (sadly, both of these were just available simply because imports) that magnificently showcased his fluid, concise …

Paul Butterfield was the initial white harmonica participant to develop a method primary and powerful a sufficient amount of to put him within the pantheon of true blues greats. You can’t really overestimate the significance of the doorways Butterfield opened up: before he found prominence, white American music artists treated …

With a method honed within the gritty blues bars of Chicago’s south side, the Butterfield Blues Band was instrumental in bringing the sound of authentic Chicago blues to a white audience within the mid-’60s, and even though the band wasn’t an especially huge commercial success, its influence continues to be …