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Continuing the legacy of blues music once felt like an obligation for Baker Brooks. “Now, I feel like it’s an honor,” he says. Chicago blues guitarist and singer Ronnie Baker Brooks — son of the late ...

While this project isn’t the duo’s first, the new release marks their first album consisting of original music. The two previously released their EP “In the Meantime,” which includes their versions of ...

You could recognize George Freeman’s playing anywhere. When tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons and his sextet appeared as guests on WTTW-Ch. 11 in 1970, most members of the band generally hewed to the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. “What do you think I’m going to do? Blow my brains out?” These were allegedly Terry Kath’s final ...

Steve Krakow isn’t just the artist, writer, and musician behind long-running fanzine the Galactic Zoo Dossier, regular Reader feature the Secret History of Chicago Music, and an array of far-out rock ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- You don't need pink ribbons scars that never forget. You don't need to go down where the crickets learn to sing and play. You don't need to be cool and cold, like old Job. You don't ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Legendary Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush, whose passionate, jazz-influenced sound influenced generations of musicians, has died. He was 84. His longtime manager Rick Bates says Rush ...