The Week In Chicago Rock

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You shoulda been there.
1. Welshly Arms at Schubas on Monday night.

Posted on April 22, 2017

The Weekend In Chicago Rock

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You shoulda been there.
1. I See Stars at the Wire in Berwyn on Friday night.

Posted on April 17, 2017

The Week In Chicago Rock

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You shoulda been there.
1. Hogg at the Empty Bottle on Monday night.

Posted on April 14, 2017

The Weekend In Chicago Rock

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You shoulda been there.
1. Beastii at the Empty Bottle on Saturday night.

Posted on April 10, 2017

The Week In Chicago Rock

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You shoulda been there.
1. Clearance at the Empty Bottle on Wednesday night.

Posted on April 8, 2017

“Legendary Chicago blues musician Lonnie Brooks, who started out as a banjo-picking lad in Louisiana decades before breathing new life into the tune ‘Sweet Home Chicago,’ died Saturday at 83,” the Sun-Times reports.
“Brooks pondered his legacy in a story that appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times in 1993:

“I’ll be on the totem pole, with Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, Magic Sam, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Koko Taylor, Little Walter, many others I can’t name . . . I’ll probably be on the last spot.”

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From the Tribune:
“I would see guys like Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker for $1, and I always wondered how they got all that soul into their playing,” Brooks told the Tribune in 1992.
“Then one night, I saw Magic Sam in a little blues club on the South Side. He went on stage right after he’d gotten into a big fight with his girlfriend, and it was like he was taking it out on his guitar. I seen how it came from the heart, so I went home to the basement, and got into that mood that Magic Sam had been in, and the blues came to me.”

Posted on April 5, 2017