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Chicago blues

The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by adding electricity, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes saxophone to the basic string/harmonica Delta blues. The music developed mainly as a result of the "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial cities of the North, and Chicago in particular, in the first half of the twentieth century.

Chicago blues musicians include:

• Big Maceo Merriweather
• Big Walter Horton
• Billy Boy Arnold
• Billy Branch
• Blues Brothers
• Paul Butterfield
• Buddy Guy
• Champion Jack Dupree
• Earl Hooker
• Elmore James
• Hound Dog Taylor
• Howlin' Wolf
• J.B. Hutto
• J.B. Lenoir
• Jimmy Cotton
• Jimmy Dawkins
• Jimmy Rogers
• John Brim
• John Primer
• Johnny Shines
• Junior Wells
• Kansas Joe McCoy
• Koko Taylor
• Kokomo Arnold
• Charlie Musselwhite
• Little Walter
• Lonnie Brooks
• Luther Allison
• Magic Sam
• Magic Slim
• Mighty Joe Young
• Muddy Waters
• Otis Rush
• Otis Spann
• Papa Charlie McCoy
• Paul Butterfield
• Robert Lockwood Jr.
• Robert Nighthawk
• Snooky Pryor
• Son Seals
• Sonny Boy Williamson
• Willie Dixon

See also

• Chicago Record Labels
• Chicago Blues Playlist

Categories: Blues | Chicago culture

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