Saturday night selection. One of my favourite clips on YouTube. Robert Nighthawk wiki
Here to watch. The whole live album is on Spotify here
In the 1930s and 1940s, when many black musicians came to Chicago from the segregated South, they brought with them outdoor music.
But when the early blues musicians began playing outside on Maxwell Street—the place where they could be heard by the greatest number of people—they realized they needed either a louder than standard Resonator guitar (e.g., Arvella Gray) or amplifiers and electrical instruments (e.g., Jim Brewer) in order to be heard. Over several decades, the use of these new instruments, and the interaction between established city musicians such as Big Bill Broonzy and new arrivals from the South, produced a new musical genre—electrified, urban blues, later coined, "Chicago Blues."
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| Maxwell Street c1950 |
