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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. Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe 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 s...

Rare 1989 local performance video unearthed Author Blues star James Harman is battling stage 4 cancer of the esophagus and begins chemo treatment over the coming week. Leslie James Harman began piano lessons at age four, and also sang in his local church choir. Harmonicas owned by his father were stored in the piano bench, and Harman tried playing them after his piano lessons ended. In time, he became capable in several other musical instruments, including guitar, electric organ, and drums. Harman performed as a blues harmonica player and singer in Chicago, New York, and elsewhere before movi...

Who Is Ma Rainey? How the 'Mother of the Blues' Became an Icon Author: Latifah Muhammad‍ Updated: 9:00 AM MST December 18, 2020 Ma Rainey’s title as the “mother of the blues” is an ode to her unremitted genius in transforming the genre despite a relatively short recording career. Now streaming on Netflix,  Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, starring Viola Davis as the brazen blues legend and Chadwick Boseman in his final film role, has brought new attention to Rainey’s mystifying story.  Adapted from August Wilson’s Broadway play of the same name, ...

Esoteric ★★★★ This is an excellent four-CD set by the doyens of the ’60s counterculture — the trailblazers of political heavy rock. Their 1969 debut album Wasa Wasa was cut for EMI’s underground label Harvest. Nary a gig ended without mass chanting of Out Demons Out started by the The Fugs who carried out an exorcism of the Pentagon in 1967. Fights and vandalism broke out at some student union gigs and Tony Blackburn made their Hotel Room 1971 single his record of the week. The four album’s include Bandages (NEMS), Live Hits Harder (BB Records), Parlez Vous English (Babylon)...

Blues music and the greats are deep in the heart of Texas history FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Texas blues artist T-Bone Walker (aka Aaron Thibeaux Walker) had an influence on almost every blues guitarist after him. Show MoreShow Less 2of5 3of5 Mance Lipscomb, Navasota blues singer. March, 1962.Ed Valdez, HP staff / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 4of5 5of5 Blues guitarist Sam ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins in 1959.Andrew A. Hanson, HP staff / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less Two blues enthusiasts an ocean apart spent nearly two decades collaborating on a book they envisioned as the definitive h...