Chicago, "The Pulse of America"

Chicago is "The Windy city" (and rest assure, some Marilyn Monroe-moments have proven this by far ), "The City of The Big Shoulders". It's a Brandy Alexander at the Drake Hotel, a slice of cake at the Palmer House, a good night's sleep at the Blackstone. But it's also called "The Pulse of America", and as for me, this statement is absolutely true. It's The Pulse of The Blues.

It came here from the swampy bluesbayou's and cottonfields of the Mississippi Delta, with people trying to find a job here after the war. Blues became Electric in Chicago, more specifically in the Chess Record Studio's, a place where people like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Little Walter, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and even the Rolling Stones recorded some of their biggest songs. Let's not forget: 'Without the blues there were no Rolling Stones', to quote Magic Slim... and without the influence of the Blues on the British Invasion in the Sixties, Rock would look totally different today...

Let's give it up for Chicagoooooooo!!!



After one hot day and a cracking night of thunder, lightning, rain (a lot of it) and heavy wind (of course), we're ready to confront Chicago with it's most precious posession: the Blues.


'You damn right, I've got the Blues,


From my head down to my shoes,


You damn right, I've got the Blues,


I can't win, 'cause I don't have a thing to lose'

(Buddy Guy)