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A 30 year old Foz in downtown Chicago - Credit: Gill Powell In his latest On Air in Suffolk column, broadcaster Stephen Foster recalls a memorable trip to cover the Chicago Blues Festival. 1990 was a key year in my radio career. After eight very happy years at Radio Orwell and Saxon Radio I suddenly found myself at a crossroads and I’m not talking about the junction where Crown Street meets Museum Street and High Street. The new owners of Suffolk’s two commercial stations were understandabl...

-Messenger photo by Chad Thompson Bob Wood, of Fort Dodge, a founding member and past president of the Lizard Creek Blues Society, poses with a guitar at his home. The Lizard Creek Blues Society is dissolving, Wood announced on Tuesday. The organization is donating its remaining funds to the Fort Dodge Fine Arts Association. -Messenger photo by Chad Thompson Bob Wood, of Fort Dodge, a founding member and past president of the Lizard Creek Blues Society, poses with a guitar at his home. The ...

CHICAGO — Corky Siegel feels fine.

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Corky Siegel, at the Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth Court, in Chicago on Dec. 7, 2013. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/TNS) Chicago blues master Corky Siegel is feeling good and ready to jam with you – even if that’s via livestream Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, (TNS) CHICAGO — Corky Siegel feels fine. “Terrific on all counts,” he says. “Just terrific.” That is good to hear and it is always good to talk to Siegel, a Chicago treasure and a man with a mill...

Catching up with the 77-year-old local music legend, who calls livestreamed concerts "closer than in-person." Catch his Extravaganza this weekend.

On the verge of the transition into the 1980s, Lincoln was alive with bands. Posters on street signs downtown advertised the next show while hype behind it built up through