Browsing: Chicago Blues

This is Chicago blues — today’s Chicago — as good as it gets.

They call him Big Llou, the well-known voice of the “Ten Commandments of the Blues” on B.B. King’s Bluesville, because he weights 300 pounds — and he wants the world to know it!

From the first track the listener knows this won’t be a bells and whistles experience.

The Blues: From the Heart and Soul brings the sound and feel of the Chicago blues scene to the galleries of the Lake County Discovery Museum in the Chicago area.

Chicago music legend will headline Chicago Blues Fest this summer, as tributes to the many fallen blues heroes of 2011 are planned.

A Personal Journey

If you’re in the Chicago Area tonight, start The New Year Right With Chicago Blues All-Stars live at Kingston Mines, January 5th, 2012.

Long time captain of likely most successful blues label since Chess Records given prestigious honor.

They say that 40 is the new 30, but when it comes to Buddy Guy, 75 is the new 25.

The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have insisted on covering the full expense of pioneering bluesman Hubert Sumlin’s burial.