Comments on: Barack Obama writes about Chicago Blues, and the Living Blues Chicago issue http://www.folo.us/2008/06/02/barack-obama-writes-about-chicago-blues-and-the-living-blues-chicago-issue/ Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: NMC http://www.folo.us/2008/06/02/barack-obama-writes-about-chicago-blues-and-the-living-blues-chicago-issue/#comment-26068 NMC Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:24:55 +0000 http://www.folo.us/2008/06/02/barack-obama-writes-about-chicago-blues-and-the-living-blues-chicago-issue/#comment-26068 Bessie Smith went from Chatanooga to New York and Alberta Hunter from Memphis t to Chicago. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee? east TN and NC to New York. In some ways it sort of funneled up the Mississippi River valley from here-- St. Louis was also a major stopping point (Henry Townsend, Ike Turner, J.D. Short had important time there, among many others) Bessie Smith went from Chatanooga to New York and Alberta Hunter from Memphis t to Chicago.

Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee? east TN and NC to New York.

In some ways it sort of funneled up the Mississippi River valley from here– St. Louis was also a major stopping point (Henry Townsend, Ike Turner, J.D. Short had important time there, among many others)

]]> By: Researcher http://www.folo.us/2008/06/02/barack-obama-writes-about-chicago-blues-and-the-living-blues-chicago-issue/#comment-26064 Researcher Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:19:13 +0000 http://www.folo.us/2008/06/02/barack-obama-writes-about-chicago-blues-and-the-living-blues-chicago-issue/#comment-26064 I have always been fascinated by the music links between North and South based on the railroads routes. Chicago became jazz and blues because that is where the Illinois Central led from New Orleans through the Mississippi Delta. The Motown Sound came from the gospel singers who took the railroad out of Alabama to Detroit. I am sure that Philly Soul and the distinctive sounds in other Northern cities also were heavily influenced by the source of the black migration in the middle of the 20th Century. I have always been fascinated by the music links between North and South based on the railroads routes.
Chicago became jazz and blues because that is where the Illinois Central led from New Orleans through the Mississippi Delta.
The Motown Sound came from the gospel singers who took the railroad out of Alabama to Detroit.
I am sure that Philly Soul and the distinctive sounds in other Northern cities also were heavily influenced by the source of the black migration in the middle of the 20th Century.

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