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Music review, the Other Ones at the Allstate Arena
Tribune rock criticJust as in their previous incarnation as the Grateful Dead, the Other Ones saunter on stage and begin to play as though picking up a conversation with an old friend, the musicians bantering for a few moments until a song emerges. The Other Ones are...Tags: Music Theater, Death, Grateful Dead (music group), Entertainment, Willie Dixon
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Blues review, Vernon Reid and James 'Blood' Ulmer and others at the Chicago Blues Festival
Special to the TribuneSomewhere, Howlin' Wolf and Willie Dixon were smiling. James Blood Ulmer, the avant-garde jazz guitarist with the Kabuki hair, was making many of Wolf and Dixon's legendary Chess Records sides the centerpiece of his performance at the Chicago Blues...Tags: Jack Johnson, Grant Park, Arts and Culture, Willie Dixon, Chicago Blues Fest
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From Blues Fest to Rush
The summer concert season in Chicago opens Thursday, May 30, with a welcome twist on business as usual: one of the most adventurous main-stage lineups at the Chicago Blues Festival in recent memory. And it's free, in contrast to the mega-event that will...Tags: John Lee Hooker, Grant Park, Cinderella (fictional character), Entertainment, Clubs and Associations
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Keeping the fire
Special to the TribuneDelbert McClinton belts out a song in a full-throated rasp forged in the crucible of the roughest honky-tonks, the grain in his voice a reminder of decades of hard living. At age 60, McClinton has settled down in Nashville and mostly performs on weekends,...Tags: Theft, Prostitution, Criminals, Bones and Joints, Social Issues
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True blues
Special to the TribuneWillie Kent is one of the hardest-working men in Chicago blues. In fact, he's been working since he was a child. "I was choppin' and pickin' cotton, way before I was the age of 9," Kent sings on "Born in the Delta," the autobiographical cornerstone of...Tags: Muddy Waters, Pies and Tarts, Blues (genre), Retirement, Career and Workplace
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It's all Raitt
Tribune rock critic"Who in the world would want to play nothing but blues?" Bonnie Raitt says with a laugh. Of course, Raitt has been paying the rent by playing the blues for three decades, but what keeps her vital is her willingness to stretch the definition. Her...Tags: John Lee Hooker, Roy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Los Lobos (music group), Country and Western (genre)
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Goldbergs blues roots, and sonic glories revisited
"We were the missing link, the guys who learned first-hand from the masters," says Barry Goldberg, part of the first blues wave that emerged on Chicago's North Side in the 1960s. "Just by being from Chicago, this great music was at our fingertips at a...Tags: Muddy Waters, Elvin Bishop, Billiards, Snooker and Pool, Blues (genre), Jerry Lee Lewis
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Movie review: 'Lightning in a Bottle'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC3½ stars (out of 4) The blues, subject of the rousing new musical movie "Lightning in a Bottle," has always been a soul-searing public demonstration of private sorrow, raw anguish and sometimes dark humor. It's the American music of commiseration, and...Tags: Muddy Waters, St. Louis Blues, Entertainment, Solomon Burke, Danny Kortchmar
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'Lightning in a Bottle'
Times Staff Writer"Lightning in a Bottle" is one terrific concert film. It's a tribute to the blues that's structured around a show held last year at New York's Radio City Music Hall. If you ever loved this kind of music, "Lightning" will bring the reasons back. If you...Tags: Muddy Waters, Entertainment, Antoine Fuqua, Martin Scorsese, Solomon Burke
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Turner Hopes To Put Past Behind Him
The Associated PressIke Turner may be one of the more influential figures in rock music. He created what many see as the first rock 'n roll record, "Rocket 88"; his guitar licks on classic blues recordings are considered masterful; he helped launch the careers of Buddy Guy,...Tags: Entertainment, Film Festivals, Documentary (genre), Buddy Guy, Laurence Fishburne
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