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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.
Linsey Alexander (born July 23, 1942) is an American blues songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist. He has been a fixture in clubs on Chicago's North Side for nearly two decades and has played with numerous blues musicians, including Buddy Guy, A.C. Reed, Magic Slim, and B.B. King.
The Arie Crown Theater is an entertainment venue named after Lithuanian immigrant Arie Crown, who was the father of Henry Crown, the American industrialist and philanthropist, and situated on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. It opened in 1960, with seating for 5,000 people, one of the largest seating capacities in Chicago.
From 1947, he led his own band in Chicago clubs, [2] as well as continuing to record with Thompson and on other sessions in Chicago, including The Four Blazes' no. 1 R&B hit "Mary Jo" in 1952. [3] In 1955 he joined Lionel Hampton 's band for two years, touring in Europe, before returning to lead his own group in Chicago. [ 2 ]
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.
Founded in Chicago by Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield: Plain White T's: 1997: present: Pop punk band Founded in the Chicago suburb of Lombard: Rise Against: 1999: present: Punk-rock group Founded in Chicago Rufus: 1970: 1983: Funk and R&B band Founded in Chicago Screeching Weasel: 1986: present: pioneering pop punk band Founded in the ...
She has been an artist-in-residence at the Chicago blues clubs Kingston Mines, [7] Blue Chicago on Clark, [6] B.L.U.E., Blue Chicago, and Bill's Blues. [8] She formed her own record label, Blue Kitty Music, in 2011. [4] Blues reviewer Eric Schelkopf wrote that Mandeville is a "true renaissance woman and fervent promoter of the blues."
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ...