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ALSIP, Ill. a ' Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300,000 in a scheme believed to have spanned at least four years, authorities said yesterday.

ALSIP, Ill. - Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said Thursday.

As many as 100 human bodies may have been dug up from a South suburban cemetery and the burial plots resold, investigators said Wednesday.

Today is Wednesday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2009 with 183 to follow. The moon is waxing.

The blues world has lost its Queen. Koko Taylor , whose raw-edged, impassioned vocals won the hearts of fans worldwide for five decades, passed away at 80 on June 3rd of complications from gastrointestinal surgery.

If someone had told me five years ago that I would one day have a farm in South Africa, I probably would have laughed it off with a line from an old Willie Dixon blues song: "I look like a farmer, but I'm a lover." Yet somehow I went from keeping a handful of tomato plants on the windowsill of my apartment in Oslo to growing hundreds of heirloom ...

I challenge you to find any album, let alone a Blues album, that includes covers of not only Willie Dixon, but also Sun Ra and Glen Danzig songs.

CANDYE KANE, Superhero : Having successfully battled pancreatic cancer last year, flamboyant blues belter Kane refashions herself as an unbeatable Wonder Woman.

Posted on June 11th, 2009 12:19 AM By Jon Bream Before the concert, promoters told me that the Levon Helm Band was set to play 80 minutes Wednesday night at the Fitzgerald.

Blues-rock guitarist George Thorogood , and his houserockin' band the Destroyers, return to the land of major labels for the July 29, 2009 release of The Dirty Dozen .

This year's Mardi Gras has passed, but if you ask Dave Clive and his Nawlins Funk Band, the sound of New Orleans lives year-round. The group celebrates the release of a new album, "Vega Sings the Blues," June 5 at Killmeyer's Old Bavaria Inn, 4254 Arthur Kill Rd., Charleston; 718-984-1202. Led by Clive, a drumming instructor at the College of ...

Record label: Grammy-winning blues singer Koko Taylor dies in Chicago at age 80.

'My band plays a different type of music than anybody else," Bob Dylan recently proclaimed in an excellent interview with Douglas Brinkley for the cover story of the May 14, 2009 issue of Rolling Stone .

The Warsaw Village Band is not your grandmother's Polish dance ensemble. You won't find a polka until track nine, and good luck recognizing it! This is traditional Polish music as filtered through industrial rock, African village singing, the Delta blues, Bollywood, reggae, primal keening, Goth sensibilities and your local disco.

If you are a fan of the blues and/or rock 'n' roll you probably know who Willie Dixon is.

Blues legend Willie Dixon was the secret weapon of Chicago's Chess Records. A talented musician, arranger, producer, and songwriter, Dixon penned some of the greatest songs in the Chicago blues milieu, major league hits sung by artists like Muddy Waters , Howlin' Wolf , Little Walter , Koko Taylor , and many others.

Together Through Life Bob Dylan Columbia A funny thing happens at the end of "My Wife's Home Town,"[jso: cq: ] a Willie Dixon-inspired blues.

Bob Dylan, "Together Through Life" The curse of Bob Dylan's bootleg series is that you might start thinking of his official releases as first drafts.

THE creative renaissance that Bob Dylan has enjoyed for the past decade continues in today's release of "Together Through Life," a 10-song collection in which pop's poet laureate sounds spontaneous, sarcastic and sometimes sentimental.

OWLS HEAD : Bob Dylan: Together Through Life . Dylana s 46th album, again on his long-time label Columbia, is an album about love, drenched in the blues.