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You don't have to go all the way downtown to enjoy some real Chicago blues music.

Veteran blues man Rodger Montgomery has played the Erie-area for more than 30 years, including a stint in Zipper City Blues Band and his own Rodger Montgomery Blues Band.

Much sought after out-of-print solo LP by San Francisco/Chicago guitar legend Nick 'The Greek" Gravenites, best known for his work with Janis Joplin, The Butterfield Blues Band, Big Brother & Holding Company and Quicksilver, gets its first CD release.

Albert King is truly a "King of the Blues," although he doesn't hold that title .

With his astonishingly accomplished guitar playing, Stevie Ray Vaughan ignited the blues revival of the '80s. Vaughan drew equally from bluesmen like Albert King, Otis Rush, and Muddy Waters and rock & roll players like Jimi Hendrix and Lonnie Mack, as well as the stray jazz guitarist like Kenny Burrell, developing a uniquely eclectic and fiery ...

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In the liner notes accompanying Sean Costello's newly released memorial CD, there's a telling observation.

After hitchhiking through Minneapolis one winter night, Janiva Magness, underage at the time, huddled in a dark corner of a club listening to classic blues artist Otis Rush, trying to avoid getting carded.

Speaking to blues harmonica ace and singer Kim Wilson of The Fabulous Thunderbirds by phone at his suburban Detroit home is akin to making a fast friend at the local watering hole: no pretenses, just a passionate talk about politics, the pros and cons of analog sound, musical heroes, friends past and present and, of course, the blues.

There are a whole lot of modern blues fans who, largely as a function of the passage of time, are less inclined to listen to classic blues than to modern players.

To get a good idea of where Derek Trucks's head is at musically, all you have to do is check out the autographs on his red Gibson SG, the one that dominates his latest CD, Already Free .