Indigo Blues-Chi Town Blues

From Buddy Guy and Carey Bell to Dave Hole and Shemekia Copeland, Chicago blues artists have paved a road for music that not only is electric in it's instrumentation but electricfying to listen to also. The form started through a transitory migration of poorer black workers from the south into more populated cities up north such as Chicago. Traditional Delta Blues music became incorporated with the electric guitar, piano, drums and bass, with the most prominent feature being the heavy bass sound. The artists on Saturday's show included Lonnie Brooks, Roy Buchanan, Cory Harris, Li'l Ed and the Blues Imperials and Magic Slim and the Teardrops.
Upcoming blues concerts that were named on the show were: Little Charlie and the Nightcats who will be at the Aladdin Theatre on September 14th, Tommy Castro will be playing at Lefty's in Salem on November 2nd and J.J. Grey and MOFRO will be at the Doug Fir Lounge on November 8th. Shemekia Copeland and Marcia Ball will be at Arlene Scnitzer Hall in March.