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Monday 23 April 2007
Chicago Blues! The Blues were not conceived of, or born in Chicago, but after its inception, in the Mississippi Delta, and other parts of the rural South, the Blues made its way to the "city with broad shoulders". As thousands of Black people migrated to Chicago, in the early 20th Century, they brought their culture, and the Blues with them. After some years of incubation, the folksy rural acoustic Blues, that they started with, had developed into an edgy urban electrified form of music. This style of Blues eventually made Chicago into the Blues Capitol of the World. Of course, to me, the most important effect of the Blues, produced in my home town, was the influence that it had on British Rock & Roll musicians in the early 1960s. They heard the Blues records, pouring out of Chicago, and they weren't satisfied with the same old American pop-music Rock & Roll any longer. American Blues was now shaping their vision of what Rock & Roll should be. So profound was this effect that The Rolling Stones made a trip to Chicago in 1964 to visit Chess Records. To them, Chess was a holy shrine, and they were drawn to it just as any religious pilgrims would be. The Stones wanted to walk the halls, and sit in the studio where Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Willie Dixon, and their other heroes were playing the Blues! They commemorated this occasion by recording an instrumental called "2120 South Michigan Avenue"; the address of Chess Records. "Satisfaction" was a smash hit, and shot up to #1 on the U.S. charts within six weeks after its release! The landmark nature of this song was confirmed, in later years, by being voted #1 in the Top 100 Greatest Rock and Roll Songs of All Time, that was compiled by VH1, and #2 in "Rolling Stone Magazine's" 500 Greatest Songs of All Time! "Newsweek" even honored this song with an article that declared it contained the "five notes that shook the world". After "Satisfaction", things would never be the same, again! I am forever grateful to the pioneering Blues musicians, in Chicago, whose influence on British Rockers, like the Rolling Stones, changed the course of Rock and Roll music all around the world! Without them, Blues Rock may have never developed! Chicago is very proud of its musical heritage, and the position it holds in the Blues world, which is why they have just developed a Blues Tour that you can take on your computer; or, if you can make it to the City, you can listen to it, as you visit the places that they are describing! You can even see where Jake and Elwood filmed their classic movie, "The Blues Brothers"! This tour is narrated by one of the Founding Fathers of Chicago Blues, Buddy Guy. Follow the link below, and when you get there, click on "Start Tour" to explore the Chicago Blues Scene in 22 short chapters. Chicago Blues Tour Learn all about chicago rock music at chicagopage.com 
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