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Chicago celebrates the blues // Festival to salute the legendary Howlin' Wolf
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The blues is good-time music at its liveliest, an invitation to
dance, drink and howl your troubles away. The blues is also living
history, a celebration of cultural continuity. What makes the
annual Chicago Blues Festival so special is that it pays tribute to
the music on both levels.
The fourth-annual, three-day Grant Park freebie will launch
itself Friday afternoon with a tribute to Howlin' Wolf. As a
reunion of those who figured prominently in Wolf's career, it is a
blues ...
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Chicago celebrates the blues // Festival to salute the legendary Howlin' Wolf
Chicago Sun-Times
; The blues is good-time music at its liveliest, an invitation to dance, drink and howl your troubles away. The blues is also living history, a celebration of cultural continuity. What makes the annual Chicago Blues Festival so special is that it pays tribute to the music on both levels. The
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Still Howlin' Chicago blues legend Howlin' Wolf lives on in new biography.(Time Out!)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; Byline: Mark Guarino Daily Herald Music Critic Chester Arthur Burnett would not be forgotten if you met him. His bulk included a 6-foot-3-inch frame, almost 300 pounds and a size 16 shoe. He struck fear and awe in almost everyone who came across him the first time. But to those who only knew him
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Built for greatness: Wolf's timeless tale
Chicago Sun-Times
; Moanin' at Midnight The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf By James Segrest and Mark Hoffman Pantheon. $26.95. He was 6 feet 4 and 280 pounds, a round mound of sound who cast a giant shadow on the Chicago blues scene for three decades. And for a time Chester Arthur Burnett, a k a the Howlin' Wolf, was
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Sumlin Howls Hubert Sumlin pays homage to Howlin' Wolf, his bandleader for more than 20 years, as the Chicago Blues Festival opens with a flourish on the famed bluesman'sbirthday
Chicago Sun-Times
; When Howlin' Wolf died in 1976, the funeral home program listed two sons: Floyd Lee Burnett, his biological offspring, and Hubert Sumlin, who thought of the Wolf as the father he never had. Sumlin put in more than 20 years as a guitarist in Wolf's great Chicago blues bands, a constant in an
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Sweet Home Chicago blues.(Brief Article)
Risk Management
; For many people, Chicago blues is the blues. Even though the I music may have been born in the Mississippi Delta, Chicago is where the blues came to prominence. Here, the country style of the South was amplified with electric guitars, harmonicas and a big beat, creating a sound that was a major
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Museum of Science and Industry along with The Chicago Blues Museum honors blues stars
Chicago Defender
; During the beginning of the second week of March, the Museum of Science and Industry with the Chicago Blues Museum honored Chicago blues musicians who are featured in the exhibit "Sweet Home Chicago" currently on view as part of the Black Creativity Program at 5700 S. South Shore Dr. Gregg Parker,
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Chicago Blues Museum celebrates history of Chicago blues
Chicago Defender
; During the Chicago Blues Festival at Grant Park, Gregg Parker's exhibit of the ethnic music and artifacts may be seen throughout the entire weekend. The blues is one of America's great treasures of folk songs from the secular tradition. It is the music that individuals composed and sang as a result
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Chicago Blues Museum returns for its annual historic exhibit at the 23rd Blues Festival
Chicago Defender
; Gregg Parker, president and founder of the Chicago Blues Museum, invites Windy City dwellers and visitors to visit with the memories of legendary blues musicians while listening to the blues stars play on the Petrillo Stage during the 23rd Chicago Blues Festival, June 8-11 in Grant Park.
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