The Chicago Gumbo Show

17/07/2024

HEY LOCO FANS - On this day in 1967, Jimi Hendrix plays his eighth and final show as the opening act for The Monkees, which understandably does not go well, as Monkees fans want nothing to do with Hendrix.

16/07/2024

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01/07/2024

Happy Monday!

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28/06/2024

I hung out a few times with Honeyboy in his Southside apartment. We jammed and he showed me his gun! I loved the stories this man had.

HEY LOCO FANS - Happy B-Day to Honeyboy Edwards. When he died he was probably the last known living link to someone who played and traveled with Robert Johnson.

For much of his life, Edwards was something of an underappreciated figure, but not in his latter years — his slashing, Delta-drenched guitar and gruff vocals were as authentic as Delta blues ever got. Edwards had it tough growing up in Mississippi, but his blues prowess (his childhood pals included Tommy McClennan and Robert Petway ) impressed Big Joe Williams enough to take him under his wing. Rambling around the South, Honeyboy experienced the great Charley Patton and played often with Johnson .

Musicologist Alan Lomax came to Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1942 and captured Edwards for Library of Congress-sponsored posterity. Commercial prospects for the guitarist were scant, however — a 1951 78 for Artist Record Co., “Build a Cave” (as Mr. Honey), and four 1953 sides for Chess that laid unissued until “Drop Down Mama” turned up 17 years later on an anthology constituted the bulk of his early recorded legacy, although Edwards was in Chicago from the mid-’50s on.

The guitarist met young harpist/blues aficionado Michael Frank in 1972. Four years later, they formed the Honeyboy Edwards Blues Band to break into Chicago’s then-fledgling North Side club scene; they also worked as a duo (and continued to do so on occasion for many years thereafter). He remained active up through the first decade of the 21st century, collaborating with Henry Townsend, Pinetop Perkins, and Robert Lockwood Jr on "Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas", which won the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.

26/06/2024

HEY LOCO FANS – Happy birthday to blues singer and pianist "St. Louis" Jimmy Oden born this day in 1903.

Oden was born in Nashville and both parents had died before their son reached the age of eight. He sang and taught himself to play the piano in childhood. In his teens, he left home for St. Louis, where he developed his vocal talents and began performing with the pianist Roosevelt Sykes. After more than ten years playing in and around St. Louis, in 1933 he and Sykes moved to Chicago.

In Chicago, he was nicknamed St. Louis Jimmy and had a solid performing and recording career for the next four decades. Chicago became his home, but Oden traveled with blues players throughout the United States. He recorded many records, his best-known being the 1941 Bluebird release "Goin' Down Slow". Oden's songs "Take the Bitter with the Sweet" and "Soon Forgotten" were recorded by his friend Muddy Waters.

"Florida Hurricane" was released in 1948 and the song featured Muddy Waters on guitar and Sunnyland Slim on piano. In 1949, Oden partnered with Joe Brown to form a small recording company, J.O.B. Records.

He spent less time performing after being in a car crash in 1957. He continued to write and record and even performed as a vocalist on three songs recorded for an Otis Spann session in 1960.

Oden died of bronchopneumonia in 1977 at the age of 74.

11/06/2024

So excited to announce our FALL 2024 US TOUR ☘️ with special guests The Rumjacks, bringing the party across the Midwest and West coast. 🍻 Tickets and VIP on-sale Friday, June 14 at 10am local.

Sign up now at floggingmolly.com/tour to get first access to tickets starting tomorrow, June 12 at 10am local.

9/24 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore Minneapolis
9/25 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave/Eagles Club
9/27 – Davenport, IA – Capitol Theatre
9/28 – Evansville, IN – Victory Theater
9/29 – Memphis, TN – Elvis Presley’s Graceland Soundstage
10/1 – Little Rock, AR – The Hall
10/2 – Tulsa, OK – Cains Ballroom
10/4 – Flagstaff, AZ – Fort Tuthill Park
10/5 – Highland, CA – Yaamava’ Resort & Casino
10/6 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
10/8 – Ventura, CA – Majestic Ventura Theatre
10/9 – Bakersfield, CA – Fox Theater
10/11 – San Jose, CA – San Jose Civic
10/12 – Vina Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amphitheatre
10/13 – Sacramento, CA – Aftershock Festival

10/06/2024

He was half a second away to being on Chess Records before they were sold.

American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Boz Scaggs turns 80 today!

22/05/2024

HEY LOCO FANS – From May 22 to 25 in 1978 Albert Collins recorded “Ice Pickin'” for Alligator Records at Curtom Studios in Chicago. It was the album that sparked Albert Collins' belated rise to blues stardom, a full 20 years after the 'Master of the Telecaster' recorded the first of his incendiary 'cool' instrumentals, 'The Freeze.'

Collins' trademark guitar attack had made him a favorite among fellow guitarists, but he had yet to achieve major success with audiences. That changed after Alligator teamed him with a unit of crack Chicago blues sidemen for Ice Pickin' and subsequent albums and tours. Collins responded by not only unleashing his explosive guitar licks but by proving that, given the proper encouragement and support, he could handle blues singing better than many -- perhaps including Albert himself -- thought he could.

Previous albums had usually featured more instrumental than vocal numbers, but his Alligator debut included only two instrumentals. Collins' humor, an important element in his performances, was also on display in numbers such as 'Master Charge' and 'Conversation With Collins.' It was released on LP in 1978 and on CD in 1990. It was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1979. In 1986 the album was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

21/05/2024

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28/03/2024

Big Sandy used to come see my band, the Deep Chicago Rhythm Owls, at the California Clipper. Maybe he needs a trombone player!

TICKET EVENT INFORMATION:This event is 21+All sales final, NO refunds or exchanges, events are rain or shine.Door times are subject to change without notice.Tickets purchased at box office will be inc

15/03/2024

Happy Ides of March!

The Ides Of March singing their only hit song Vehicle in 1970. Music in stereo.