Browsing: Chicago Blues

“You could be the coolest guitar player and put on great live shows, but I want something to be said.”

Linsey Alexander’s Live at Rosa’s is perfectly suited for the times we’re in. For post-war Chicago blues fans it’s a…

“I have a large variety of influences and I listen to a lot of music. I incorporate it into all of the music I make. It is still blues music but it comes from different angles.” Mike Wheeler

What follows is our list of Rolling Stones albums that the music lover and devoted connoisseur alike should not be without.

“All these legends, we knew personally. They knew us. They’re gone now, so, somebody got to rise up.”

“I dug deep, and deep, and deep into that, beyond what any other human being wants to talk about.” – Corky Siegel

Broonzy was also one of the first bluesmen in Chicago to play electric guitar, beginning in 1942, though his audiences preferred the acoustic sounds of the South.

Although 15 tracks, and over an hour in length, we wondered where the time went, before pushing play again. It’s that good.

One of the premiere music festivals in the country, this event never disappoints and folks travel from all corners of the globe to attend, often making it a week long vacation and celebration.

Yet, here are the Rolling Stones, telling us “School is in session, and here is how it’s done.” Not with malice. Not with a sense of being smug, or full of themselves. No: It is done with a sense of knowing.