Two clubs, two worlds, one music: the blues. That's how it goes in Chicago, a blues nexus crisply divided into separate, unequal halves. A sharp racial divide cuts through the blues landscape in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Buddy Guy has been wailing the Chicago Blues since he arrived to the city from Louisiana 67 year ago. At 88, he's getting set for his annual "residency" at his Legends club in January ...

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If you happened to be at the corner of Wabash and Balbo at 11 p.m. in early February, you would have seen a small crowd gathered around an 87-year-old man with a beaming smile. Nattily attired in a ...

A band plays at the Checkerboard Lounge. Published May 30, 1977. Photo by Jonas Dovydenas. Courtesy of the Chicago Ethnic Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. For decades ...

Two clubs, two worlds, one music: the blues. That's how it goes in Chicago, a blues nexus crisply divided into separate, unequal halves. A sharp racial divide cuts through the blues landscape in ...

The blues world was changed forever on a sunny day around 1960 when a little boy walked into a five-and-dime in Los Angeles. “I was 8, maybe 9 when I saw it, all shiny in a display case,” says Billy ...

Harpist Steve Bell and guitarist John Primer perform at the soft opening of Lee’s Unleaded Blues in April. Credit: Marc Monaghan Like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, Lee’s Unleaded Blues (7401 S.