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Chicago Blues

The City and the Music

By: Mike Rowe, Ronald Radano

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Paperback | 1 August 1981 | Edition Number 1

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Chicago has always had a reputation as a "wide open town" with a high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked politicians. It has also been the home for countless black musicians and the birthplace of a distinctly urban blues-more sophisticated, cynical, and street-smart than the anguished songs of the Mississippi delta--a music called the Chicago blues. This is the history of that music and the dozens of black artists who congregated on the South and Near West Sides. Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, Howlin'' Wolf, Elmore James, Tampa Red, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, Otis Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson, Junior Wells, Eddie Taylor--all of these giants played throughout the city and created a musical style that had imitators and influence all over the world.

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Soul & R 'n' B

Acknowledgements	p. 6
Foreword / 'What's He Singing?'	p. 8
The Prewar Blues	p. 11
From Farm to Factory	p. 26
Sweet Home Chicago	p. 40
The Aristocrat of Records	p. 63
King of the Chicago Blues	p. 79
The Small Labels	p. 93
The Chess Set	p. 126
The Peppiest in the Biz	p. 153
Decline and Fall	p. 165
The West Side	p. 174
Chicago Today	p. 206
Postscript / Why Chicago?	p. 211
Sources	p. 215
Chicago Blues Clubs in the '50s	p. 216
Chicago RandB Hits 1945-59	p. 217
Record Listing	p. 219
Index	p. 223
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