The blues patriarch also had three sons who played together as the Kinsey Report.
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Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who've been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place.
The Secret History of Chicago Music has often had to contend with the question of geography. I've counted artists as "from Chicago" even when they've been based as far away as Champaign, Illinois, provided they have strong ties to our city. Oddly, I've rarely done this across state lines, even for near neighbors in Gary, Indiana—which is about two hours closer by car than Champaign. In any case, I set my own rules here (and there are rules!), so I'm rewriting them to declare Lester "Big Daddy" Kinsey the greatest Chicago bluesman from Gary.