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CHICAGO (AP) — Sam Lay, a Chicago blues drummer and vocalist who played with Howlin...

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CHICAGO (AP) — Sam Lay, a Chicago blues drummer and vocalist who played with Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, has died at age 86. Lay died Saturday of natural causes in Chicago, Alligator Records said Monday.

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In the early morning of March 9, 1997, when Christopher Wallace (known as the notorious BIG) was shot in Los Angeles, the hip-hop community was still mourning the death of Tupac Shakur , The latter was killed in Las Vegas less than a year ago. At that time, there was a fierce battle between the east coast and west coast rappers, which eventually led to very public hatred and even violent conflict. Despite the turmoil, it is still hard to imagine that their deaths will have decades of impact on ...

Rolling Stone Jonathan Taplin Tour-Managed Rock Royalty. Now He’s Telling His Stories In a new memoir, Taplin recalls what it was like to watch Dylan go electric, George Harrison speed-drive, and Clapton and the Band wrestle with demons and drugs By John Scheele* Jonathan Taplin wasn’t present at the creation, but in rock & roll terms, he came close enough. He witnessed Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, saw Jimi Hendrix and many others at Monterey Pop, ...

The blues became bluer Thursday. Albertina Wassenhove, whose Midway Tavern gave blues musicians and fans a place to call home for more than three decades, died Thursday night from a heart ailment. She was 93. “She was a kind of a quiet whirlwind of energy,” local musician Eugene “Jumpin’ Gene” Halton said. “Sometimes she would seem like a quiet person, but she was always at this place of positivity and joy.” Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Hahn ...

The blues became bluer Thursday.