The Aces helped invent the sound of electric Chicago blues
They’re best known as a backing band for Junior Wells and Little Walter, but they took the lead when it came to the future of the genre.
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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.
When you delve into the history of Chicago blues, you hear a lot about singers, lead guitarists, and harmonica players. But what about rhythm sections? Surely the groove keepers are just as indispensable and just as responsible for advances in the music. Such is the case with the Aces, who are as important to electric urban blues as the Funk Brothers are to Motown s polished pop R&B. When the Great Migration carried Mississippi Delta blues to Chicago in the 1940s, it evolved into the citified postwar sound that s still familiar to l
Multimedia artist Frank Garvey makes music with robots to satirize late capitalism
The creator of the long-running OmniCircus also recorded two brilliantly unclassifiable albums in Chicago in the late 70s.
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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.
Some artists are so far ahead of the curve or so far up their own tree that it s hard to even contextualize and assess their work. Frank Garvey is just such a creator. He hasn t lived in Chicago in almost 40 years, but his sonic and visual art is so idiosyncratic and brilliant that I d claim him for Secret History even if he d only spent an airport layover here.
big deal to environmentalists in the bay area. one of them is a billionaire. president obama visited him first. they talked about the environment. i interviewed him this week. he said climate change is the issue of our time. i don t know if he pressed the president on it. and a billionaire environmental activist. he has been active on the keystone xl pipeline issue. that is right. this is important to environmentalists. they say this is the top thing president obama promised about his re-election. it will be number one or close to it. they need to hold him to it. tom is interesting. he is talked about already as somebody who might run for governor in california. he has already put $37 million of his own money in two ballot measures here. environmental ballot measures. this is a guy to watch. obama came to his home. overlooking the golden gate bridge. he went to the getty home. a climate change. anti-fossil fuel change. he went to getty. as in getty oil. he is at all of
like the country he represents his motives and intentions remain obscure. joining me is christopher hill. he is a former u.s. ambassador to south korea and from washington d.c. mark landler of the new york times. i am pleased to have both of them on the program. chris hill, you have dealt with the north koreans. tell me what you think of these threats. should we be taking them more seriously than in the past. they ve certainly kind of backed themselves into a corner. that is, it s hard to imagine them getting out of this. yeah, i would take these threats pretty seriously. they seem to be really wanting to, you know, push this thing as far as they could take it especially during these exercises which, by the way, take place every single yearly and every single year the north koreans object to them. except this year they ve objected in about as strenuous terms as we ve seen for years and years. so i think we re in kind of a bit of a dangerous situation right now. charlie:
minister benjamin netanyahu, winning over a skeptical and gently c, restarting the moribund middle east peace talks in part by appealing to israelis to see it from the palestinian point of iew. put yourself in their shoes. look at the world through their eyes. just as israelis built a state in their homeland, palestinians have a right to be a free people in their own land. gwen: but make no mistake, this was an emphatically pro-israel trip, especially when the president talked tough to two of the region s problematical leaders, presidents mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran and bashar .l-assad of syria i m confident that assad will go. it s not a question of if, it s when. and so part of what we have to spend a lot of time thinking about is what s the aftermath of that and how does that work in a way that actually serves the syrian people? gwen: and today he did some hand-holding with the leaders of jordan and turkey as well. not too much on his plate this week, guys. what was th