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Jazz and Blues Lounge

June 7th, 2008

Blues Festival Wrap-up: Great Music, Rain, Otis Taylor and Why I am in Love with his Bass Player

Well, my adventure at the 25th Annual Chicago Blues Festival is over for another year. I had such a blast. Folks, this is the largest free blues festival in the country. It is a festival that, somehow, manages to get better every year. You will have to pay through the nose […]

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June 7th, 2008

Your Chicago Blues Festival Coverage

If this works the way the Utterz people say it will, you should be able to hear my posts live from the 25th Annual Chicago Blues Festival on Saturday June 7, 2008. My posts should all be there for your listening enjoyment. The mainstage stars for June 7 are Buckwheat Zydeco, but there […]

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June 3rd, 2008

More About the Chicago Blues Festival Performances

Well, I am running into some minor problems with the software that would have, hopefully, allowed me to sort of broadcast live from the Chicago Blues Festival. Apparently the people at WordPress, who allow me to blog, haven’t caught up with the new technology that would allow me to, essentially, turn voicemails into text […]

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June 2nd, 2008

More About the Chicago Blues Festival

The biggest music festival in the Chicago area is about to start this week. OK, Lollapalooza might be a tad bigger, but outside of that, this one this the biggie. I do plan to be there, at the very least on Saturday. I hope to check out a lot of the music […]

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March 9th, 2008

Thinking about Summer and Chicago’s Blues Fest

It is hard to imagine thinking about the start of summer.  This is particularly true of those of you currently buried in snow and those of us here in Chicago where the temperatures are struggling to get above freezing and the forecast calls for more snow.  But, before you know it, summer will indeed be […]

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