Chicago blues

It's the Windy City quiz.

What legendary Southside record label founded in 1950 by two brothers were pivotal in the rise of electrified Chicago blues artists like Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf? Was it A, Motown Records, B, Chess Records, C, Sun Records, or D, Stax Records?

I think Stacks was South, so I'm going to go with B, chess.

That is correct.

Kneel on a stick to get your name on the Lord Papu Trophy.

Thank you for filling those blanks for me.

Which historic migration phenomenon brought hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago between 1916 and 1970, fueling the birth of Chicago Blues, gospel, and urban soul? Was it the Dust Bowl exodus, B, the Great Migration, C, the Gold Rush, or D, the Trail of Hope?

I want to say the A, the Dust Bowl.

And I knew none of it.

No one in the Philly suburbs listened to Chicago blues or like 50s, 60s R&B or anything.

It just wasn't really, maybe some people were, but my circle wasn't.

And it was all electrifying at the same time.

I think Somalian, yeah, one of her parents.

Yeah, and the documentary also, just like the Nina Simone one, put it out there that I think she was autistic and artistic, black, identifying a young woman with braces, and yet, oh my God, this just jet fuel that went into her.

So again, did they listen when they were hanging out to Chicago Blues? I don't know, but that is like 50-50 to me, that song.

I'm bonded, I'm yours.

I know there were other models.

There was the Chicago Blues model.

Sure.

It was a guitar-led band, Muddy Waters.

Wow.

You have everything from Delta Blues to Chicago Blues to Rock and Roll Fuels Blues to Swamp Blues from Louisiana.

You name it.

I love it.

And I like smoke filled rooms.

I got in a conversation with the driver and I said, what exactly is that? And he said, that's Whiskey Blues by Chicago Blues Radio.

I thought, that is really cool.

And I made a note on my phone.

You could say to a human being, a clerk who is a professional who knows music, who knows what they have.

You know, hey, I'm looking for something that kind of reminds me of a smoke filled room and they will probably go and find you some really great.

Chicago Blues recorded by real human beings.

I know it exists.

Two years later, he took a train north to Chicago.

Within a year, he'd plugged in an electric guitar, and Muddy Waters became the father of the Chicago Blues.

Number three, Coloma, California, where they first found gold.

Something enormous started here by accident because of a sawmill that wasn't working properly.

Oh, I have one page.

Well, she's in the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame.

She also teaches blues fingerpicking and slide guitar at the historic Old Town School of Music in Chicago.

She also teaches guitar and songwriting at clubs, camps, conferences, music festivals, and colleges all over the country.

He does a lot of like Mississippi John Hurt kind of finger picking kind of stuff.

He has a great voice.

um so i was like oh this will be great so he did it with me and then we started playing at buddy guys together and then we played some you know festivals we played bayfront blues festival we played chicago blues festival together as a duo we did a lot of things like that but what happened was after bang at the door i needed to have um like an upright bass player and i i wanted another guitar player to double up on my the parts that i did overdubs on and so now he feels like oh You have your own band now.

You don't need me.