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The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by taking the basic acoustic guitar and harmonica-based Delta blues and adding electrically amplified guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, and sometimes saxophone, and making the harmonica louder with a microphone and an instrument amplifier. The music developed when poor Black workers did the "Great Migration" from the South into the industrial cities of the North such as Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. Chicago Blues has a more extended palette of notes than the stan… read more
The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by taking the basic acoustic guitar and harmonica-based Delta blues and adding electrically amplified guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, and sometimes saxophone, and making the harmonica louder with a mic… read more
The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by taking the basic acoustic guitar and harmonica-based Delta blues and adding electrically amplified guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, and sometimes saxophone, and making the harmonica louder with a microphone and an instrument amplifier. The music developed when poor Black… read more

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    Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band

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    Brian Carmona

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    Vance Kelly

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    Johnny Laws

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1 Play track Mannish Boy Muddy Waters
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2 Play track Smokestack Lightnin' Howlin' Wolf
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3 Play track Spoonful Howlin' Wolf
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4 Play track Dust My Broom Elmore James
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5 Play track Rollin' Stone Muddy Waters
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6 Play track I'm In The Mood John Lee Hooker
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7 Play track My Babe Little Walter
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8 Play track Got My Mojo Working Muddy Waters
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9 Play track I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man Muddy Waters
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10 Play track The Sky Is Crying Elmore James
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    Take It Home

    B.B. King 26,481 listeners

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    I Hear Some Blues Downstairs

    Fenton Robinson 16,585 listeners

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    Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band 5,725 listeners

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    1956-1958 Cobra Recordings

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    B.B. King 4,473 listeners

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