Chicago blues music

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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

Top Artists

Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band

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Brian Carmona

354 listeners
Magic Sam and Shakey Jake

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Instance

751 listeners
Mud Morganfield

5,217 listeners
Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues

5,774 listeners
Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson

4,651 listeners
The Cinelli Brothers

1,761 listeners
J.B. Hutto & His Hawks

2,552 listeners
Vance Kelly

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