Geographic
Show 7: The Amplified Chicago Blues Tradition
Chicago is where the blues hardened into a city sound: louder bands, sharper backbeat, tougher stories. These tracks are grouped to show how migration, clubs, labels, and electric instruments turned a Southern form into an urban force.
33Tracks
30Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
Chicago is where the blues hardened into a city sound: louder bands, sharper backbeat, tougher stories. These tracks are grouped to show how migration, clubs, labels, and electric instruments turned a Southern form into an urban force.
Tracklist
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southbound Train | Big Bill Broonzy | 1 | Story | |
| 2 | Key To The Highway | Jazz Gillum | 1 | - | |
| 3 | Remember | Alberta Adams | 1 | - | |
| 4 | Chicago Blues | Arthur Big Boy" Crudup" | 1 | - | |
| 5 | Sagefield Woman Blues | Kokomo Arnold | 1 | - | |
| 6 | Blues Before Sunrise | Scrapper Blackwell | 1 | - | |
| 7 | Every Time I Get To Drinking | Sunnyland Slim | 1 | - | |
| 8 | Someday (Electric) | Otis Spann | 1 | Yes | - |
| 9 | I Can't Quit You Baby | Willie Dixon | 2 | Yes | Story |
| 11 | Talk To Me Baby (I Can’t Hold Out) | Elmore James | 2 | - | |
| 12 | Dust My Broom | Elmore James | 2 | Story | |
| 14 | My Time After A While | Buddy Guy | 2 | - | |
| 15 | Who Do You Love | Bo Diddley | 2 | Story | |
| 16 | Strollin' | Champion Jack Dupree | 2 | - | |
| 17 | Have A Good Time | Big Walter Horton | 2 | Yes | - |
| 18 | Two Bugs and a Roach | Earl Hooker | 3 | Yes | Story |
| 19 | Killing Floor | Howlin' Wolf | 3 | Story | |
| 20 | Little Red Rooster | Howlin' Wolf | 3 | - | |
| 21 | Bright Lights, Big City | Jimmy Reed | 3 | Story | |
| 22 | Got My Mojo Working | Muddy Waters | 3 | Story | |
| 23 | Rollin' Stone | Muddy Waters | 3 | Story | |
| 24 | She's A Sweet One | Junior Wells | 3 | - | |
| 25 | Dark Road | Eddie Taylor,Floyd Jones | 3 | - | |
| 26 | Twenty-Four Hours | Eddie Boyd | 3 | Yes | - |
| 27 | Bad News Is Coming | Luther Allison | 4 | Yes | Story |
| 28 | What Happened To Our Love | L. V. Banks | 4 | - | |
| 29 | Gotta Move On | Eddy Clearwater | 4 | - | |
| 30 | Little Angel Child | Jimmy Dawkins | 4 | - | |
| 31 | Just To Be With You | Mike Bloomfield,John Paul Hammond,Dr. John | 4 | - | |
| 32 | Goodbye Jimmy Reed | Bob Dylan | 4 | Story | |
| Nine Below Zero | Sonny Boy Williamson II | - | |||
| Slow Down Baby | Lester Davenport | - | |||
| That's All Right | Jimmy Rogers | - |