Stephen Stills is one of rock music’s most enduring figures with a career now spanning six decades, multiple solo works, and four hugely influential groups – Manassas, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN), and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY). He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice for […]
Photo by Amplified: Chicago Blues “AMPLIFIED: CHICAGO BLUES” April 8-Aug. 10, 2019 | Chicago History Museum In advance of next year’s opening of the Chicago Blues Experience, an entire museum dedicated to the blues, the local-history museum opens a blues whale of its own, an exhibit about the growth of the genre here out of […]
The past year has been a whirlwind for Rhiannon Giddens, the Grammy-winning musician who became the first woman and first nonwhite person to win a major prize for excellence on the banjo and then celebrated the release of her latest album, “Freedom Highway,” with a performance at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility. But none of […]
By Elon Green The last eight months—roughly the amount of time since Donald J. Trump’s Inauguration—haven’t smothered Mavis Staples’s irrepressible optimism, but it’s been palpably tempered. She faced dark days even before the election in 2016, when Prince died that April. Staples’s feelings for Prince, her friend and onetime producer, bordered on maternal: he had […]
Chicago took a major step to preserving its blues history. The Chicago Blues Experience is moving to the city’s Loop. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter tells us when it will open its doors. Source: Chicago Blues Experience Coming to Loop – NBC Chicago
Sona Wang, 58, began her venture-capital career at Allstate Venture Capital, then went on to found three independent VC firms. When the last one, Ceres, began winding down five years ago, she and a group of partners created Chicago Blues Experience, a for-profit blues museum and performance space to open in 2019. Wang and her husband, who have two grown […]
“The sound and style of Chicago blues was built by artists such as singer and guitarist John Primer, who migrated to Chicago in 1963 at the age of 18. Primer and the Real Deal Blues Band perform July 14 at Beverly Arts Center’s Baffes Theatre Mainstage near his former home in Chicago’s Morgan Park community. His […]
“…Co-founders Bill Selonick and John Boncimino, of the upcoming Chicago Blues Experience Museum, slated for a downtown location at 25 E. Washington, talk about their five-plus year long process of creating an immersive music museum to explore the music and its link to the city; Jackie Dixon, President of Willie Dixon’s Blues Heaven Foundation (and Willie’s […]
“Guy, who will return Wednesday to the Asbury Park Press Stage at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, is routinely near the top of Rolling Stone magazine’s ‘100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time’ list and his pal and fellow guitar hero Eric Clapton believes that Guy is the greatest living guitarist…” [Mick] Jagger—who recently […]
“Mick Jagger makes a guest appearance on a new version of the Rolling Stones’ ‘Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker),’ from their 1973 album Goats Head Soup, by blues giant and longtime Stones ally Buddy Guy. The new rendition is on an exclusive CD called Chicago Plays the Stones, which features Chicago blues musicians covering 12 Rolling Stones songs. […]