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  2. Chicago blues - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Music of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The most renowned early recordings of boogies were made in Chicago with Clarence Pinetop Smith, who might have been influenced by the brothers Hersal Thomas and George W. Thomas from Houston, who were together in Chicago in the 1920s. [4] Chicago blues and boogie music continues to be popular today with the annual Chicago Blues Festival, and ...

  4. Blues - Wikipedia

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    While popular musicians like Bo Diddley [95] and Chuck Berry, [101] both recording for Chess, were influenced by the Chicago blues, their enthusiastic playing styles departed from the melancholy aspects of blues. Chicago blues also influenced Louisiana's zydeco music, [102] with Clifton Chenier [103] using blues accents.

  5. Chicago Blues Festival announces 2024 lineup, including ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Live in Cook County Jail - Wikipedia

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    Live in Cook County Jail is a 1971 live album by American blues musician B.B. King, recorded on September 10, 1970, in Cook County Jail in Chicago.Agreeing to a request by jail warden Winston Moore, King and his band performed for an audience of 2,117 prisoners, most of whom were young black men.

  7. Music of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Chicago was the first important center of jazz as it left the city of its birth, New Orleans, Louisiana.The name jazz (and its early variations jass or jas) may have first been applied to the music in Chicago in the 1910s, as such hot New Orleans bands as Tom Brown's made a hit up north.

  8. Why is Chicago Against Ketchup on Hot Dogs? - AOL

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    "That is the classic Chicago hot dog." There's growing consensus that this is the way to do it. The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council — yes that's a real thing — says don't use ketchup on ...

  9. List of Chicago blues musicians - Wikipedia

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    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.