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The Checkerboard Lounge was a blues club on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, established in 1972 at 423 E. 43rd St. by L.C. Thurman and Buddy Guy. [1] [2] In 1985, Guy left the partnership and later established Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago's South Loop neighborhood.
The first blues clubs in Chicago were mostly in predominantly black neighborhoods on the South Side, with a few in the smaller black neighborhoods on the West Side. New trends in technology, chaotic streets and bars adding drums to an electric mix, gave birth to a new club culture.
Buddy Guy's Legends is a blues club in Chicago, Illinois. It was opened in 1989 by blues musician Buddy Guy [1] [2] who still owns the club and makes regular appearances, performing a month of shows each January. [3] [4] Legends is one of the few blues clubs left in Chicago, a city renowned for its own particular brand of blues.
The Chicago Blues Festival returns this year June 6-9 as part of Millennium Park’s 20th anniversary season, with some 35 performances and 250 artists celebrating the city’s blues legacy, the ...
Before the pandemic, Kingston Mines showcased a variety of blues by two separate bands, every night year-round, on two stages. [8] As of 2023, the club is open on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. [10] Kingston Mines is still owned by the Pellegrino family and it is "the oldest, continuously operating blues club in Chicago."
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.
Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981 is a concert video and live album by American blues musician Muddy Waters and members of the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was recorded on 22 November 1981 by David Hewitt on the Record Plant Black Truck, mixed by Bob Clearmountain , and released on 10 July 2012.
Koko Taylor (born Cora Ann Walton, September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) [2] [3] [4] was an American singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", [ 1 ] she was known for her rough, powerful vocals.