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Sax giant E. Parker McDougal left precious few footprints

Once praised as one of the world’s greatest jazz musicians, sax giant E. Parker McDougal has been all but forgotten 30 years after his death.

Kent Rose hits 50 years in Chicago country music

Country veteran Kent Rose has played with Baraboo, the Sundowners, and the Rattlers—and now he’s holding down a Montrose Saloon residency.

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Downstate weirdos Max Load brought punk to Belleville

The scrappy punks in Max Load, from an Illinois suburb of Saint Louis, proved that subversive teenage creativity didn’t need a big city to thrive.

The Rooks cut a hall-of-fame garage-rock single but broke up in obscurity

The Rooks' searing protopunk song “A Girl Like You” is probably familiar to more people today than heard it in 1966.

Cosmic folk meets playful grooves at weekend festival Astral Autumn Days

Astral Autumn Days promises mind-altering sounds, warm grooves, and singers whose reflective verses lean into seasonal melancholy. 

Soul singer Garland Green couldn't quite turn luck and talent into stardom

Garland Green's “discovery” is the stuff of fairy tales, and one of the soul singer's earliest singles was a crossover smash—but he faded away by the end of the 1980s.

Gerald Sims played on two of the most immortal soul songs ever

Jazz bassist Cleveland Eaton had a career almost too vast to imagine

Soul vocal group the Independents grew out of a powerful songwriting duo

Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy formed the Independents in Jerry Butler’s songwriting workshop, and after the band's short life, they went on to partner with the likes of Natalie Cole and Ronnie Dyson.