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Frank Luby
- Feb 8, 2022
- 5 min
Muddy Waters: From household name to household story
Try to think of a famous American inventor whose home and workplace are museums. Henry Ford? Yup. Thomas Edison? Of course. That pantheon...
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Frank Luby
- Jan 29, 2022
- 5 min
Remembering Willie Dixon ... in his own words
You can’t tell the full story of modern blues and modern popular music without highlighting Willie Dixon, who passed away on this day 30...
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Frank Luby
- Nov 5, 2021
- 8 min
A Chat with Christone "Kingfish" Ingram: Past, Present, and Bright Future
“Play the song that got you here!” That’s what country music legend Roy Acuff recommended back in the day as he welcomed young performers...
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Frank Luby
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
Remembering Bill Luckett
“Where are you from?” The question came from a neighboring table at the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and it wasn’t...
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Frank Luby
- Oct 12, 2021
- 6 min
Concert Review: Buddy Guy and Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
Buddy Guy has mellowed, but in a way that is still pure Buddy Guy. By the time the 85-year-old legend departed the stage at Horseshoe...
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Frank Luby
- Oct 6, 2021
- 5 min
Doing one thing very well ... for 50 years
Whether a start-up survives more than five years is essentially a coin toss, according to data from the US Small Business Administration....
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Frank Luby
- Sep 7, 2021
- 6 min
The Magic of Kingfish
The TL/DR version:21-year-old artist Christone "Kingfish" Ingram and his stellar supporting team serve up an irresistible blend of...
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Frank Luby
- Aug 27, 2021
- 5 min
Stevie Ray's rendition of "Life and Business 101"
Stevie Ray Vaughan passed away 31 years today in a helicopter crash in southern Wisconsin. He left behind not only an immense musical...
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Frank Luby
- Mar 29, 2021
- 3 min
RIP Dion Payton
Last Saturday, as we got ready to see Joanna Connor perform at Rosa’s on Chicago’s West Side, I couldn’t get an up-tempo version of...
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Frank Luby
- Jan 22, 2021
- 5 min
A Checkerboard Past
One great thing about ticket stubs, posters, and invitations is their ability to help us piece together the past with some precision....
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Frank Luby
- Sep 9, 2020
- 3 min
James Brown in concert: I Feel ... Strange
The sheer cultural intensity of the first six months of 1984 – a crossroads of the Boomer and Gen X eras – is hard to grasp to this day....
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