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    Muddy Waters: From household name to household story
    Frank Luby
    • Feb 8
    • 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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    Remembering Willie Dixon ... in his own words
    Frank Luby
    • Jan 29
    • 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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    A Chat with Christone "Kingfish" Ingram: Past, Present, and Bright Future
    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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    Remembering Bill Luckett
    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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    Concert Review: Buddy Guy and Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
    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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    Doing one thing very well ... for 50 years
    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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    The Magic of Kingfish
    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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    Stevie Ray's rendition of "Life and Business 101"
    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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    RIP Dion Payton
    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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    A Checkerboard Past
    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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    James Brown in concert: I Feel ... Strange
    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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