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[3] In 1984, Campbell left Chicago for Europe, living first in the Netherlands [2] and later in Duisburg, Germany, where he remained for ten years before returning to Chicago. [1] [2] Campbell's last album was Spider Eating Preacher (Delmark, 2012). It was nominated for a Blues Music Award in 2013 in the category Traditional Blues Album. [4]
Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois. It is based on earlier blues idioms, such as Delta blues , but is performed in an urban style . It developed alongside the Great Migration of African Americans of the first half of the twentieth century.
Fenton Lee Robinson (September 23, 1935 – November 25, 1997) [1] was an American blues singer and exponent of the Chicago blues guitar. In 2023, he was inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Guitarist Buddy Guy performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2006. Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.
The Melrose sound dominated Chicago blues before World War II, [3] but the arrival of large numbers of Southern African Americans in Chicago during and after the war brought Melrose's dominance to an end as a harder, deeper blues sound proved more popular with the new audience. [citation needed] However, Melrose continued to work into the 1950s.
Boston Blackie & Otis 'Big Smokey' Smothers – Chicago Blues Session, Volume 1 (1998, Wolf #120.847). Boston Blackie and Smothers did not play together on the record; rather it is a compilation, consisting of half Boston Blackie tracks and half Smothers tracks.
Jordan Kyrou scored twice, and Justin Faulk, Jake Neighbours and Brandon Saad also scored in the third period to help the St. Louis Blues erase a three-goal deficit and beat the Chicago Blackhawks ...
On July 11, 1993, in Chicago, Jones shot and killed the blues artist Boston Blackie, following a heated dispute over payment that began a month earlier when both performers appeared at the Chicago Blues Festival. Jones claimed he acted in self-defense, but was convicted of second-degree murder and was incarcerated for 17 months of a four-year ...