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The blues legend is cruising into retirement with a headlining set at Chicago Blues Fest this weekend. But his influence on the city, and the genre, is undeniable.
Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon will kick off his latest tour at the Hidden Gem Music Club in Centerville on Friday, May 31. Noah Wotherspoon and his big band will open the show.
Though he often feels, when called to the stage to start a solo show, “like the executioner has arrived to take me to the gallows,” Ellis's new acoustic album, Naked Truth, finds the veteran guitarist
The now-defunct Checkerboard Lounge blues bar doubled as a popular UChicago college hangout before it relocated to Harper Court. “We were there to be part of the South Side, to experience Chicago in that way.”—Ethan Michaeli (A.B. ‘89)
Blues music is in the process of reinventing itself to reflect fewer clubs and iconic headliners, who have either died or retired.