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David Whiteis
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Music,
Concert Preview
Mar 29, 2018
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Music,
Concert Preview
Aug 17, 2017
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Music,
Music Feature
Jun 7, 2017
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So many current stars have cut their teeth in Branch’s band that they could fill their own blues festival.
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Billy Branch, Palm Tavern, The Sons of Blues, Lurrie Bell, Freddie Dixon, J.W. Williams, Carlos Johnson, Carl Weathersby, Bill McFarland, Chicago Fire Horns, Mae Koen, the Lights, Blues Shock, Going to See Miss Gerri One More Time, Bringing the Blues Back Home, The New Generation of Chicago Blues, New Kid on the Block, Harp Attack!, Blues in the Schools, 40 years, anniversary, Video
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Music,
Music Feature
Jun 7, 2017
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His father, the late Lonnie Brooks, appears on the new Times Have Changed—alongside Memphis rapper Al Kapone.
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Ronnie Baker Brooks, blues, guitar, Lonnie Brooks, Times Have Changed, Provogue, Al Kapone, Golddigger, The Torch, Take Me Witcha, Jimmy Johnson, Eddy Clearwater, Willie Kent, Watchdog, Video
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Music,
Music Feature
Jun 7, 2017
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The cofounder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops sings fables of struggle from a diversity of peoples and eras.
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Rhiannon Giddens, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Freedom Highway, Factory Girl, We Rise, Tomorrow Is My Turn, string band, African-American, folk, vaudeville, blues, Celtic, fiddle, banjo, violin, Genuine Negro Jig, Dona Got a Ramblin’ Mind, spirituals, creole, Hit ’Em Up Style, Video
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Music,
Concert Preview
Jun 5, 2017
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Your extracurricular options include Eddie Shaw, Peaches Staten, L’Roy, and Eddy “the Chief” Clearwater.
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Concert Preview, Chicago Blues Festival, Blues Festival, aftershows, afterparties, blues, Chicago Blues All Stars, Original Blues All Stars Awards, Motor Row Brewing, Big Bill Morganfield, Mud Morganfield, Muddy Waters, mural, Big Walls, Eduardo Kobra, Chicago Women in the Blues Festival, Joan Gand, Tracee Adams, Ivy Ford, Donna Herula, Shirley King, Dia Madden, Liz Mandeville, Jeannie Tanner, Countess Williams, Ellen Miller, Peaches Staten, Ms. Trysh, Reggie’s Music Joint, Eddy “the Chief” Clearwater, Buddy Guy’s Legends, Little Harvey, Joe B. & the Shot Gun Band, Rooster’s Palace, Larry McCray, Eddie Shaw, Kingston Mines, Sydney Joe Qualls, New Orleans Beau, Odyssey East, Mzz Reese, Dr. J’s, Shorty Mack, Lemelle’s Luxury Lounge, Willie White, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Rosa’s Lounge, Vance Kelly & the Backstreet Blues Band, Ted’s Place, L’Roy, Linda’s Lounge, All Stars Pale Ale
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Music,
Concert Preview
Feb 23, 2017
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Music,
Music Feature
Jun 8, 2016
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The world’s largest free blues fest bustles with a diversity of traditions and talents—including Irma Thomas, Lazy Lester, Wee Willie Walker, John Primer, and tributes to Otis Rush and Otis Clay.
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By David Whiteis and Bill Dahl
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Blues Festival, Grant Park, Petrillo Music Shell, Crossroads Stage, Front Porch Stage, Jackson Mississippi Rhythm and Blues Stage, Windy City Blues Society, Fernando Jones, Blues Kids Foundation, Otis Rush, Otis Clay, Alligator Records, Delmark Records, Shemekia Copeland, Eddie Cotton, John Primer, Lazy Lester, Irma Thomas, Wee Willie Walker, Teeny Tucker, James Johnson, Super Chikan, Diunna Greenleaf, Eddie Shaw and the Wolf Gang
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Music,
Music Feature
Jun 8, 2016
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Chicago’s blues clubs are in high gear all weekend—and some neighborhood spots are getting in on the action.
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Blues Festival, aftershows, Women of the Blues, Coast to Coast Collection, Firecat Projects, SPACE, Reggie’s Rock Club, Reggie’s Music Joint, Rosa’s Lounge, B and B Madison Entertainment, Odyssey East, For the Good Times Lounge, JLM Abundant Life Center, Dr. J’s Place, Hot City Lounge, Water Hole, Mighty Mo Rodgers, Alligator Records, Delmark Records, Theo Huff, Willie White, Sydney Joe Qualls, New Orleans Beau, Toronzo Cannon, Lurrie Bell, Jo Jo Murray, Dave Specter, Holle Thee Maxwell, Chicago Women in the Blues Festival, Lazy Lester
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Music,
Music Feature
Jun 8, 2016
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The Louisiana native’s Blues Festival appearance is a historic occasion.
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Lazy Lester, Excello Records, swamp blues, Lazy Lester Rides Again, Blue Horizon, King Snake, Lightning in a Bottle, Whoa Now, I’m a Lover, Not a Fighter, Pondarosa Stomp, Video
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Music,
Music Feature
Jun 8, 2016
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This tribute set, anchored by his final working band, features Cicero Blake, Theo Huff, Willie Rogers of the Soul Stirrers, and more.
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Otis Clay, Hi Records, Theo Huff, Cicero Blake, New Orleans Beau, Willie Rogers, Walk a Mile in My Shoes, Echo Records, Billy Price, This Time for Real, Trying to Live My Life Without You, That’s How It Is (When You’re in Love), Sending Up My Timber, If I Could Reach Out (And Help Somebody), Sensational Nightingales, One-derful! Records, Video
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Music,
Music Feature
Jun 8, 2016
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He’s been sidelined by a stroke, but more than 25 musicians will pay tribute to him at this year’s festival.
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Otis Rush, tribute, Jimmy Johnson, Abb Locke, Carl Weathersby, Lurrie Bell, Bob Stroger, Cobra Records, I Can’t Quit You Baby, Double Trouble, blues, Willie Dixon, Eli Toscano, T-Bone Walker, So Many Roads, So Many Trains, My Love Will Never Die, Right Place, Wrong Time, Ain’t Enough Comin’ In, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Video
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Music,
Music Feature
Jun 8, 2016
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The Chicago guitarist honors his mentors—including Muddy Waters and Magic Slim—by serving as a role model for young musicians.
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, John Primer, guitar, Real Deal Blues Band, Muddy Waters, Magic Slim, Elmore James, Theresa’s Lounge, Sammy Lawhorn, Stuff You Got to Watch, Earwig, Video
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Music,
Music Feature
Sep 16, 2015
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By staying put in his hometown, this Chicago saxophonist has nurtured generations of musicians—and a south-side festival that's now in its 16th year.
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Ernest Dawkins, New Horizons Ensemble, Yosef Ben Israel, Jeff Parker, Avreeayl Ra, Marquis Hill, Memory in the Center, an Afro Opera: Homage to Nelson Mandela, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM, Maurice Brown, Corey Wilkes, Nicole Mitchell, David Boykin, Aaron Getsug, Greg Ward, Norman Palm, Isaiah Spencer, Englewood, Hamilton Park, Alexis Lombre, James Wenzel, Isaiah Collier, Jeremiah Collier, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Kahil El'Zabar, Englewood Jazz Festival, Live the Spirit Residency, Live the Spirit Big Band, Bobby Dawkins, Regal Theater, Black Artists Group, James Johnson, Vandercook College of Music, Von Freeman, South Side Street Songs, Fred Anderson, Washington Park, Video
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Blogs,
Bleader
Jun 10, 2015
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A roundup of afterfest blues shows for folks who can't get enough in Grant Park this weekend
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Music,
Music Feature
Feb 2, 2015
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Gerri Oliver's bar, once a crown jewel of Bronzeville, was shut down by the city in 2001. But blues harpist Billy Branch remains dedicated to preserving the history and culture it embodied.
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Billy Branch, Palm Tavern, Gerri Oliver, Bronzeville, Blues in the Schools, Junior Wells, Big Walter Horton, Carey Bell, James Cotton, Rosa's Lounge, Sons of Blues, Going to See Miss Gerri One More Time, James "Genial Jim" Knight, Blues Shock, Mervyn "Harmonica" Hinds, David Gray, Midwest Real Estate Investment Company, Richard M. Daley, Tobacco Road, Timuel Black, Sumito Ariyoshi, Hot City Cocktail Lounge, the Odyssey, Linda's Lounge, For the Good Times, Lurrie Bell, Melvin Taylor, Carl Weathersby, Gerri's Palm Tavern, Video
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Music,
Music Feature
Jul 23, 2014
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Dee Alexander has earned international acclaim, but fame has eluded her. Her great new album, Songs My Mother Loves, might change that.
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Dee Alexander, jazz, jazz singers, albums, Ben Ratliff, New York Times, 2013 Newport Jazz Festival, Bluejazz, DownBeat, CDs, Chicago Tribune, Ella Fitzgerald, 2012 Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, Ken Chaney Xperience, Baba Eli Hoenai, Henry Huff, UIC, University of Illinoi, University of Illinois at Chicago, Kennedy Center, Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Howard Mandel, Jazz Journalists Association, Corey Wilkes, Ernest Dawkins, Miguel de la Cerna, Kickstarter, crowdfunding, 3Arts Foundation, 3AP, stipends, Greg Pasenko, Oliver Lake, recording, Columbia College, Rita Warford, Iqua Colson, AACM, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Obie Creed, Progressive Arts Center, Prada Ensemble, Breath, Douglas Ewart, Mankwe Ndosi, R. Kelly, Delmark, Malachi Thompson, HotHouse, Hyde Park Art Center, Yussef Ernie Adams, Harrison Bankhead, bands, Tomeka Reid, Scott Hesse, Junius Pau, Evolution Arkestra, Ari Brown, Corey Wilkes, World Saxophone Quartet, Oliver Lake, Lillstreet Art Center, jazz songs, jazz standards, University of Chicago, Logan Center for the Arts, College of DuPage, McAninch Arts Center, MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art
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Best of Chicago,
Music & Nightlife
Jun 25, 2014
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Nellie "Tiger" Travis
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By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best of Chicago 2014, southern-soul singer, Nellie "Tiger" Travis, Slap Yo' Weave Off, I'm a Woman, Don't Talk to Me, Mr. Sexy Man, If I Back It Up, You Gone Make Me Cheat, M.O.D. (Man on Drugs), Critics' Picks
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Music,
Music Feature
Jun 9, 2014
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Bettye LaVette, Dr. John, and Billy Boy Arnold headline a diverse lineup that includes several underappreciated treasures on the fest's smallest stages.
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By David Whiteis, Bill Dahl, Peter Margasak, and Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Blues Festival, blues, soul, R&B, roots rock, Bettye LaVette, Dr. John, Dorothy Moore, Billy Boy Arnold, Mark Hummel, Mark Hummel's Harmonica Blow Out, Willie Clayton, Cicero Blake, Nikki Hill, Otis Taylor, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Theo Huff, Sugar Blue, Pat Brown, Homemade Jamz, Deitra Farr, Peaches Staten, Nellie Travis, dining, nonprofits, Windy City Blues Society, Koko Taylor Celebrity Aid Foundation, Fenando Jones, Blues Kids Foundation, Larry McCray, Jeremy Marre, Rob Riesman, books, Chicago Blues Angels, Hollee Thee Maxwell, Shirley King, Liz Mandeville, WXRT, Bill Perry
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Music,
Record Roundup
May 19, 2014
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Nine Reader writers sift through a musical farrago that includes Ben Frost's defibrillating body music, Dawn Golden's alchemical electro-pop, and Sleaford Mods' grimly minimalist postpunk.
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By Peter Margasak, Leor Galil, Miles Raymer, Bill Meyer, Kevin Warwick, Luca Cimarusti, Kim Kelly, Tal Rosenberg, and David Whiteis
- Tags: Record Roundup, Lilly Allen, Auto-Tune, records, Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley, Oren Ambarchi, Randall Dunn, Dunn O))), guitar, Drag City, Black Anvil, Relapse, black metal, Bok Bok, Night Slugs, producers, Kelela, Alex Sushon, Dawn Golden, Downtown records, Mad Decent, Bandcamp, Dexter Tortoriello, Houses, Rosy Cross, covers, Arne Deforce, Mika Vainio, Editions MEgo, sound qua sound, electronic music, Pan Sonic, duets, John Escreet, Sunnyside, John Hébert, Tyshawn Sorey, Evan Parker, Fennesz, Christian Fennesz, Pita, Jim O'Rourke, Empty Bottle, laptops, Ben Frost, Mute, Probcause, Bonafyde Media, rappers, EPs, instrumentals, Twista, Jarekus Singleton, Alligator Records, blues, Sleaford Mods, Harbinger Sound, Andrew Fearn, Jason Williamson, Weatherbox, Triple Crown, Favorite Gentlemen, punk, emo, Lee Weisert, New Focus, composers, Clara Yang, piano, Leslie Winer, Alexis Zoumbas, Angry Mom Archives, violin
