Chicago Blues
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Chicago has always had a reputation as a "wide open town" with a high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked politicians. It has also been the home for countless black musicians and the birthplace of a distinctly urban blues,more sophisticated, cynical, and street-smart than the anguished songs of theâŚ
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This originally came out in 1973 as Chicago Breakdown, and has probably never been out of print. Rowe is an English blues historian and record collector, and his obsessive fascination with the musicians, labels, and clubs that created the blues in Chicagoâs golden years drips off every page, from Lester Melroseâs Bluebird label through to the Chess Records giants â Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin Wolf and âthe last of the great blues poetsâ, Sonny Boy Williamson. Much of Roweâs work has no doubt been superseded by the veritable industry of blues research that has sprung up in the yearsâŚ
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