Loud, messy and unquestionably brilliant, Hound Dog Taylor created a wild engine of noise that’s half Chicago Blues, half proto-punk, and would become the centerpiece of the largest independent blues label in the U.S.
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For over 40 years, Chicago organist Chris Foreman has kept the sound of the Hammond B3 organ alive in the city of its birth. And he’s still pushing, still innovating, still searching for elusive sounds.
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A cross country odyssey with my old friend Dan Harris, taking in all that’s weird and wonderful about the American road.
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It’s Christmastime, and I’m back in my old Chicago home.
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I’m thinking, Sinatra stood here. I’m also thinking, I can’t believe I used to work here.
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The phone call came at one in the morning, just as I was leaving the High-Hat Lounge. My brother-in-law never sounds frantic, and he didn’t sound frantic now. But he was calling me at one in the morning, and that …
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I should know better. I always should know better. Michael puts that shot of Jeppsen’s Malort in front of me and I know, in the back of my squirming dinosaur brain, that it’s going to taste like licking a shag …