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The largest free blues festival in the world lived up to the hype with a glorious weekend of great blues music across 4 days in Chicago. (OK, there was one hour of rain on Sunday when we waited in the ...

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“Dancing Aloud,” a sign said. On stage, guitarist Corey Dennison, 43, white and well tattooed, had just opened an instrumental conversation with a grandfatherly figure in a White Sox cap. “This is my ...

Each year the Chicago Blues Festival picks a theme–usually either a slight play on words (the fest’s 19th edition, last year, was dubbed “She’s Nineteen Years Old” after the Muddy Waters song) or ...

Toronzo Cannon has more energy before 5 a.m. than some people can muster all day. “Hey now, you OK? You gonna be cool today?” he asks one co-worker at a Chicago bus garage. “How you doin’?” he asks ...