The Chicago-born Goldberg was an accomplished ... As a teenager, Goldberg sometimes would sit in with such blues legends as Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, and Howlin’ Wolf. Barry was one of the ...

His music was a major influence on the Chicago blues scene. This compilation of Muddy Waters’ Chess Records singles from the 1950s and early 1960s captures the essence of Chicago blues. Waters’ ...

But he remained proud, strong, and fiercely individual… We’re talking about Muddy Waters ... not folk blues. It might have started that way, but he’d have starved in Chicago if he ...

That guitar-maker was none other than Rick Rayburn, Gibbons explains, who owned Pyramid Guitars at the time. Others have ...

They're mixing the music of the Middle East with good old Chicago blues. Music can make you feel at home. When Rami Gabriel and Karim Nagi play together, they mix music from their Arab homelands ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Three people were killed and 15 others were injured in a shooting late Friday night, March 21 at Young Park in Las Cruces, Las Cruces Police said. A 19-year-old man, an 18-year ...

Young Fashioned Ways was named after the 1955 Willie Dixon-penned Muddy Waters song of the same name ... by a full band made up of veteran blues and R&B musicians. They were drummer Steve Potts ...

Blues vocalist Sonia Astacio will perform at Rosa’s on April 23. This Chicago blues vocalist is a longtime staple on the current blues scene, having played venues like Kingston Mines ...

After almost a year of fraught negotiations, the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago ... Now the fun stuff: the Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz for March 30 to April 5. Missed last week?

An iconic annual Chicago tradition is just moments away from beginning, as the Chicago River dyeing is set to take place to kick off weekend St. Patrick's Day celebrations. The event marks the ...

Beginning shortly after 10 a.m., several boats transformed the waters of the Chicago River into a bright shamrock green, with the process taking around an hour to complete. The story goes ...

We spoke with the scholar about Black in Blues, a poetic exploration of the relationship between the color blue and Black ...