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"Sweet Home Chicago" is a blues standard first recorded by Robert Johnson in 1936. Although he is often credited as the songwriter, several songs have been identified as precedents. [ 1 ] The song has become a popular anthem for the city of Chicago despite ambiguity in Johnson's original lyrics.
Samuel Gene Maghett (February 14, 1937 – December 1, 1969), [1] known as Magic Sam, was an American Chicago blues musician. He was born in Grenada County, Mississippi, and learned to play the blues from listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter. [2]
Pearson and McCulloch believe that "Sweet Home Chicago" and "Dust My Broom" in particular connect Johnson to "the rightful inheritors of his musical ideas—big-city African American artists whose high-powered, electrically amplified blues remain solidly in touch with Johnson's musical legacy" at the time of Columbia's first release of a full ...
Blackwell also made solo recordings for Vocalion, including "Kokomo Blues", which was transformed into "Old Kokomo Blues" by Kokomo Arnold and later reworked as "Sweet Home Chicago" by Robert Johnson. Blackwell and Carr toured throughout the American Midwest and South between 1928 and 1935 as stars of the blues circuit, recording over 100 sides ...
Robert Cray was born on August 1, 1953, in Columbus, Georgia, while his father was stationed at Fort Benning.Cray's musical beginnings go back to when he was a student at Denbigh High School in Newport News, Virginia.
Jon Hamm gave fans a night to remember when he took to the stage at a popular Chicago karaoke event on New Year's Day.. On Wednesday, Jan. 1, patrons of Bub City were treated to a New Year's ...
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A later session in Chicago produced "I Believe", a "Dust My Broom" knockoff, that became a number nine charting single and the first issued on the new Modern subsidiary Meteor Records in 1953. Being able to score two hits within a year with essentially the same song by the same artist prompted record companies to exploit it as much as possible.