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The Cobra Records Story: Chicago Rock and Blues 1956–1958 (Media notes). Various artists. Nashville, Tennessee: Capricorn Records. 9-42012-2. Broven, John (2009). Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03290-5.
Name Founder Founded Link Address Genres Artists Alligator Records: Bruce Iglauer: 1971: link: P.O. Box 60234, Chicago, IL 60640: Blues, roots, folk: Koko Taylor ...
Guitarist Buddy Guy performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2006. Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.
Sweet Home Chicago" performed at the White House with Barack Obama joining B.B. King on the chorus. Blues standards are blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition due to having been widely performed and recorded. [1] They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as standing the test of time. [2]
Count Basie's band used many riffs in the 1930's, like in "Jumping at the Woodside" and "One O Clock Jump". Charlie Parker used riffs on "Now's the Time" and "Buzzy". Oscar Pettiford's tune "Blues in the Closet" is a rifftune and so is Duke Ellington's tune "C Jam Blues". Blues guitarist John Lee Hooker used riff on "Boogie Chillen" in 1948. [9]
Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois. It is based on earlier blues idioms, such as Delta blues , but is performed in an urban style . It developed alongside the Great Migration of African Americans of the first half of the twentieth century.
CME was founded in 1990 by Scott Silver who moved the store from 3270 N. Clark St to its current location in 2005. A major player in the global vintage guitar market, Chicago Music Exchange took an active role in vintage guitar boom of the mid to late-2000s.
Hooker's song is notated as a medium tempo blues with an irregular number of bars in 4/4 time in the key of E. [15] It was recorded in Chicago in 1966 with Hooker on vocal and guitar, guitarist Eddie "Guitar" Burns, and unknown accompanists. [17] The song was released on the Chess Records album The Real Folk Blues (1966). [18]