The Harvey resident ‘was one of those great musicians whom you could identify by hearing just one note of his voice or one note of his guitar,’ said Bruce Iglauer, founder of Alligator Records.
Corey Harris is back to square one, returning to his roots as a singer of acoustic blues. His new album is called The Insurrection Blues and we'll open this week's show with that. We've also just added a new album from Joanne Shaw Taylor, some local blues with Mat D and the Profane Saints and we don't want anyone to feel bad, but when Jimmy Dawkins sings about feeling bad, it just might put a smile on your face.
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In the 1960s, musicians and music fans across the world began to be intrigued by the blues. Searching for it, they would inevitably be led to Chicago and, once there, to two Chicago institutions: a store called the Jazz Record Mart and a record label called Delmark. At the store, visitors found not only records, but informed guidance to who was playing where on the city’s vibrant club scene. On the label they discovered multiple voices of the blues, from veterans of the 1920s and 30s to the new generation of Windy City artists such as Magic Sam, Junior Wells and Luther Allison.