Exploring Chicago Blues: Inside the Scene, Past and Present - Softcover

Cummings-Yeates, Rosalind

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626193223 ISBN 13: 9781626193222

Publisher: History Press, 2014

Synopsis

Blues history is steeped in Chicago's sidewalks; it floats out of its restaurants, airport lounges and department stores.

It is a fundamental part of the city's heritage that every resident should know and every visitor should be afraid to miss. Allow Rosalind Cummings-Yeates to take you inside the Checkerboard and Gerri's Palm Tavern, where folks like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and Ma Rainey transformed Chicago into the blues mecca. Continue on to explore the contemporary blues scene and discover the best spots to hear the purest sounds of Sweet Home Chicago.

About this title

About the Author

Rosalind Cummings-Yeates is a journalist and arts critic with the same Chicago and Mississippi roots that helped create the Chicago blues. She has been an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago for over ten years, and she writes a monthly blues column for the Illinois Entertainer, Sweet Home.?A three-time Grammy nominee and retired governor for the Chicago Grammy chapter, Billy Branch is a harmonica virtuoso and legendary Chicago blues musician. With a career that spans forty years, he has performed all over the world spreading the Chicago blues gospel.

Edition details

• Publisher: History Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1626193223
• ISBN 13: 9781626193222
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128