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Before the pandemic, Kingston Mines showcased a variety of blues by two separate bands, every night year-round, on two stages. [8] As of 2023, the club is open on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. [10] Kingston Mines is still owned by the Pellegrino family and it is "the oldest, continuously operating blues club in Chicago."
West End was one of the early group of Chicago punk rock clubs that included La Mere Vipere and O'Banion's, operating in the late 1970s and 1980s. It was located at 1175 W. Armitage [ 1 ] History
Prior to his death in 1983, Muddy Waters made Guy promise to "keep Blues alive". Guy says that Legends is part of keeping that promise. [5]Guy, who had previously co-owned the Checkerboard Lounge on the south side from 1972 until 1985, first opened Legends at 754 South Wabash inside the Loop, behind the Big Hilton on Michigan Avenue, hoping to attract convention attendees from the Hilton.
The Checkerboard Lounge was a blues club on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, established in 1972 at 423 E. 43rd St. by L.C. Thurman and Buddy Guy. [1] [2] In 1985, Guy left the partnership and later established Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago's South Loop neighborhood.
In 1910, real estate developer and tavern owner Tom Chamales began leasing the property from the Hoffmans. [1] [6] Chamales changed the name to "Morse's Cafe & Garden."[1] In 1914, after acquiring adjacent land to the west, Chamales demolished the original venue and replaced it with a large, two-story complex that he named the Green Mill Gardens [1] as a nod to the famous Moulin Rouge ("Red ...
Albert King in Paris, 1978 "Red House" was inspired by blues songs Hendrix was performing early in his career as a sideman. Music critic Charles Shaar Murray describes a song he calls "California Night", which Hendrix performed with Curtis Knight and the Squires, as "a dead ringer, both in structure and mood, for his 1967 perennial 'Red House ' ". [3]
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Empty Bottle is a bar and music venue located at 1035 N. Western Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.Located on the west side of Chicago's Ukrainian Village neighborhood, the venue primarily hosts local, regional, and touring alternative music acts, but also hosts acts ranging from indie-rock, punk, metal, rock'n'roll, hip-hop, electronic, experimental, and jazz.