Chicago Blues History: Preserving The Past

By Brant Buckley

Welcome to the Chicago Blues Grave Tour . Travel through 15 cemeteries in the Chicagoland area viewing 80 Blues artists. Featuring colored grave pictures with flowers, artist write ups, and song recommendations. Restvale Cemetery is the greatest Blues cemetery in the world holding over 20 artists. Blues musicians on the tour include Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Big Bill Broonzy, Little Walter, Junior Wells, Tampa Red, Willie Dixon, Earl Hooker, and Hound Dog Taylor. Female Blues artists include Koko Taylor, Dinah Washington, Mississippi Matilda, Queen Silvia Embry, and Bertha Lee Patton. Pre-War musicians include Papa Charlie Jackson, Kansas Joe McCoy and Papa Charlie McCoy, Daddy Stovepipe, and Doctor Clayton. These great Blues artists are the men and women who shaped and laid the foundation for all American Music.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D4MPHGWP
• ISBN13: 9798325348297
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 0.5" x 8.3"