http://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddie-c-campbell-mn0000169690/biography In 2013, on tour in Germany, he was paralyzed by a stroke and heart attack. Site for pioneering medical research at schools and hospitals in the West Side medical center. He died tragically of a heart attack after he ran over a man in an automobile. Playing in the juke joints and gambling houses in Memphis, he befriended Howlin Wolf, James Cotton, Joe Hill Louis, and other blues men. Frank worked days as a manual laborer and nights as a side musician on bass or guitar, leaving the band leading headaches to bluesmen like Junior Wells, Little Walter, Hound Dog Taylor, and Willie Cobbs, Junior Simpkins, Willie Williams, Carey Bell, Little Arthur Gray, and James Scott. Robert Lockwood Jr., Eddie Taylor, Jimmy Reed, Floyd Jones, Blind John Davis and Elmore James and others. Sundays, April 3-December 18, 2022800 S. Desplaines St.9am-3pm FREE Admission. It centered on three independent cities: New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. The view from the grill at Jim's Original, a holdover from the original Maxwell Street Market. He gave me that gift. Broonzy first played fiddle with Papa Charlie Jackson, learned guitar, got a foothold in Chicago nightclubs and in turn mentored other musicians. Only a teenager, he joined the Muddy Waters band, had a solo hit with the instrumental Juke, then quit to form his own band. Mr. H. (Baron of the Blues), played harmonica for 50 years with Bobby Top Hat Davis. He played at the Chicago Blues Festival in 1998, 2000, and 2003. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/alex-easy-baby-randle/Content?oid=907503, Born James Dixon in Somerville, TX, Gray was a farmer, laborer and roustabout for the Ringling Bros. circus. (Sally Good, Chicago Tribune), On Maxwell Street, on Sept. 3, 1983, the merchant may change but the style of the hustling and the variety of merchandise remains the same. "You have to know what you're looking for," says a frequent visitor to the area. In a room of a small cottage forty small boys all with hats on sit crowded into a space 10 x 10 feet in size, presided over by a stout middle-aged man with a long, curling, matted beard, who also retains his hat, a battered rusty derby of ancient style. People are getting on the public transit bus. He created unique songs such as Bad Luck Blues, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Bluebird Blues, Sugar Mama and Elevator Woman and set the stage for the upbeat electric blues Chicago of the 1950s. After a string of bad luck in 1971 (his house burned and his car was stolen) he took day jobs with the city school board and police department to support his family, til he had the chance to retire in 1994 and return to music full time. After twenty years, Hildas itinerant mother plying the streets and frequently moving addresses was a mirror image, an alter ego to Jane Addams comfortably settled inside Hull-House Settlement. By 1955, according to Mike Rowes book Chicago Blues, Moody gave up blues for gospel music and became a pastor. Pete Welding was the producer and Norm Dayron was the engineer. Accompanying him on some of the 24 tracks here areBig Joe Williams, Robert Lee McCoy, Henry Townsend, Yank Rachell, Walter Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind John Davis, Washboard Sam and Charlie McCoy. bjb, Jewish families in eastern Europe would send their daughters to work and with luck land husbands in America. Something went wrong. He was featured in the American Folk Blues tours of Europe, including this one with Willie Dixon in 1970: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0L0tjldPKIWalters uncertain physical and mental health, detailed in David Whiteis book Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories, hampered his career, but he continued to play on Maxwell Street and with other bands, and his playing influenced others such as Little Walter. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-reed-mn0000076881/biography. http://www.thebluestrail.com/artists/dstove.htm, Daddy Stovepipe Watson with his wife Mississippi Sarah, trade insults in a classic jug band tune on the And This Is FreeCD, 1936 The Spasm, Perkins, a bass player, was born in 1931 outside Baltimore, MD. (Davis is seen in the 1981 documentary Maxwell Street Blues directed by Linda Williams. Modern Chicago Blues (CD Testament)A terrific collection of 21 songs recorded between 1962 and 1966 by the team of Pete Welding and Norm Dayron, it features Johnny Young, Wilbert Jenkins, Maxwell Street Jimmy, Big Walter Horton, Robert Nighthawk, John Lee Granderson, John Wrencher and William Mack, with Otis Spann and other notables in the band on various cuts. He recording a song Maxwell Street Blues for Paramount Records in in 1925: Lord, Im talkin bout the wagons, talkin bout the pushcarts too; Cause Maxwell Streets so crowded, on Sunday you can hardly pass through. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/papa-charlie-jackson-mn0000012139/biographyPapa Charlie Jackson sings his Maxwell Street Blues (c. 1925) on the And This Is FreeCD. A typical food stand on Maxwell Street on Sunday, Feb. 3, 1974. (really mehi). He went on to influence Earl Hooker and other guitar players, as well as his son, drummer Sam Carr. A 1996 review of Rushings ferocious style from David Whiteis in the Chicago Reader:http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/pat-rushing-with-willie-jamesthe-maxwell-street-blues-band/Content?oid=890047 He often played with, or around the corner from another musician, John Henry Davis, and hosted other performers including drummer Winehead Willie Williams, according to blues fan Les Fourge. The large number of cartoon images of Jews in the American city, both the more prosperous Germans and poorer Russian-Hebrews, featured an accomplished skill among them for sharp, vulgar, and pushy practices.The names Cohen, Levy, Jacob, Israel identified by captions with a thick Yiddish dialect, were clear giveaways. He also worked as a forklift operator in steel mills, family said. SEE MENU BEVERAGES & SIDES. In a narrow urban space, Maxwell Street matured into a full-service economy. Later he created his own folk art items such as Maxwell Street crosses and, around 2000, built a wooden Juketown Bandstand at the northeast corner of Maxwell and Halsted, to protest the demolition of 2001. It ended up that I took on the earlier acoustic styles of the people who played on Maxwell Streetthe music my parents grew up with down South, said Johnson in a 2018 interview with Bonni McKeown for the Austin Weekly News. Back on the West Side, Leon worked with Tail Dragger, Eddie Taylor, Larry Taylor and James Scott at Marys, David & Thelmas Lounge, the Golden Slipper and the Show & Tell. He played harmonica with bass player John Henry Davis (age 38, from Clarksdale, MS) and drummer Porkchop Hines at Newberry and Maxwell, just west of Blind Arvella Grays spot. These included Big Bill Broonzy, Tampa Red, Memphis Minnie, Roosevelt Sykes, Big Joe Williams, Lonnie Johnson, Arthur Crudup and many others. 18250 Halsted St. Homewood, IL 60430 $ 8. If you have questions regarding the content on this website please contact me at bjb@uic.edu. Jim's Original is the longest continuously operating hot dog stand to have once done business on Maxwell Street. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/johnny-dollar-mn0001416035 On the North Side he played at Lillys. Polish, Russian, and German nationalists hated each other, but they hated the Jews living among them even more. Backstage with J.B. by guitarist Dave Weld: http://www.chicagobluesguide.com/features/jb-hutto-by-weld/jb-hutto-weld-page.html, J.B. Hutto plays his racy Pet Cream Man, featuring his guitar slide on the And This Is FreeCD, Blinded in his youth, Jim Brewer was urged by his parents to learn music. Sunnyland didnt have many big hits himself, but he brought musicians to record on area labels including his own Airway Records http://www.allmusic.com/artist/sunnyland-slim-mn0000490769/biography and mentored many artists including Maxwell Streetharmonica player Snooky Pryor and singer Big Time Sarah. Banks moved to St. Louis, served in the military, and settled in Chicago in the 1960s. A Sunday-only affair, it was a precursor to the flea market scene in Chicago. The passage of human time is relentless, irreversible, and finite, everywhere for everyone. 11656 S Halsted St Chicago IL 60628. It was torn down in the name of progress and urban renewal in 1994 to make way for the University of Illinois Chicago campus. (Chicago Tribune historical photo), The Maxwell Street market, looking toward Halsted Street, on Nov. 21, 1935, after city officials forced merchants to clear the sidewalks of their wares. Tensions between change and convention are an enduring feature of the story. Maxwell Street had its share of characters, including Margo, who was sellingpinwheels at the corner of Maxwell and Halsted streets in August 1963. He offered the legendary Howlin Wolf guitarist, Hubert Sumlin, the then princely sum of 10,000 German marks to make a clandestine LP (on the Amiga label) in East Berlin in 1964, when such decadent music was verboten on the airwaves. Vince is also featured in an oral interview elsewhere on the Maxwell Street Foundation site. He worked to expand the complexities of the Jewish character beyond an earlier melting pot for Americanization and assimilation dramatized by Israel Zangwell in Children of the Ghetto (1892). when i go to the windy city, wherever i may roam, this place my 4AM mecca. http://www.davidhoneyboyedwards.com He hoboed (v.t.) Moving to Chicago hed play Maxwell Street at the height of the crowd each Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Usually backed by nothing more than an electric guitar and a drummer. Big Joe, born Joseph Lee Williams in Crawford, MS, traveled with the Rabbit Foot minstrels and recorded for the Okeh label in the Birmingham Jug Band in 1930. According to British writer Mike Rowes book Chicago Blues: The City and the Music, Ora Nelle issued only two records: one by the mandolin-guitar duo Johnny Young and Johnny Williams. (Robert MacKay, Chicago Tribune), Maxwell Street had its share of characters, including Margo, who was sellingpinwheels at the corner of Maxwell and Halsted streets in August 1963. Direct Maxwell Street connections include Little Walter, Hound Dog Taylor, and even a young Jimmie Lee Robinson playing behind Big Mama Thornton on Hound Dog. See also The American Folk Blues Festival Volume Two (1962-1966) and The American Folk Blues Festival Volume Three (1962-1969), Chicago Blues: The City and the Music, book by Mike Rowe (DeCapo Press, 1973, paperback, 226 pages. In the 1990s, Robinson played family parties and barbecues, and in NorthSide clubs like Rosas, Lillys and B.L.U.E.S. (Edward Feeney/Chicago Tribune), The once thriving Maxwell Street, reduced by a new freeway and a university expansion, was a ghost of a neighborhood when this photo was taken in January 1982. (Walter Kale, Chicago Tribune), A jazz band plays while shoppers mingle on Maxwell Street on March 16, 1975. In the 1850s the area became a port of entry for immigrants, initially Irish and German, living both in small wood cottages begrimed in soot and in two to three story clapboard buildings falling to pieces, on streets that were quagmires of black mud, rotten planks, and miserable lighting. He never made a full album in his own right, although after his death Testament Records featured him as part of the Chicago String Band produced by Pete Welding http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/the-chicago-string-band-mr0000785155 He stopped performing in public in 1975 and died of cancer four years later, according to All Music Guide: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-lee-granderson-mn0000234726John Lee Granderson performs Hard Luck John (c. 1964) on the And This Is FreeCD. He played harp on Testaments Masters of Chicago Blues album featuring Eddie Taylor and Floyd Jones. Chess 50th Anniversary Little Walter: his Best (CD MCA)These are the recordings that changed the sound and style of blues harmonica forever, and everyone who came after him was as influenced by him as jazz saxophonists were by Charlie Parker, writes Cub Koda in All Music Guide.http://www.allmusic.com/album/his-best-mw0000023808. A Sunday-only affair, it was a precursor to the flea market scene in Chicago. http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/horst_lippman, Theodore Roosevelt Hound Dog Taylor took his guitar and slide to Maxwell Street in 1940 when he first arrived in Chicago from Natchez, Mississippi at age 23. Rayfield had made a living on Maxwell Street for 20 years grinding and selling horseradish. Find 5 listings related to Maxwell Street Grill in Homewood on YP.com. The track Snooky and Moodys Boogie may have inspired Little Walters 1953 hit Juke. Jones made further recordings for the JOB label in the early 1950s, backing musicians such as Snooky Pryor and Johnny Shines. Wrenchers sound and style was country juke joint blues, brought to the city and amplified to the maximum. Harp blowers ever since have kept his wonderful licks alive. The music is terrific, a prime example of classic Chicago Blues. Hilda was a good student at the Jewish Training School, but typically Jewish family resources were reserved for the education ofmale sons and brothers. He played with Eddie King and many other blues and soul artists and recorded a single with One-der-ful Records in 1962. Born in Clarke County, MS, according to the 2013 reference book Blues: A Regional Experience by Bob L. Eagle and Eric S. LeBlanc, band leader and guitarist Pat Rushing was photographed by many tourists on Maxwell Street. He played his first club gig in Chicago in 1961, but his career picked up steam in 1972, when he began performing at the Maxwell Street Market. Arthur kept playing around Chicago til his final illness and death.Little Arthur Duncan plays harmonica on And This is Free: Live on Maxwell Street.. Visitor and Card Access. She specializes in knowing the holes in the wall where the best soul and blues can be found, and in the areas north of Chicago http://lowreensliveblues.com, For a mainstream guide to blues and blues-rock acts and events in the area, see Linda Cain and Jennifer Nobles Chicago Blues Guide http://www.chicagobluesguide.com/index.html, The Windy City Blues Society website posts clubs, events, and bands http://windycityblues.org/musicians/, Al Harris moved to Chicago from Shreveport, LA in the early 1960s. Home@ HALSTED ST" Shortly after that, Jim was running the stand and bought it from his Aunt. Not hampered by a tracheotomy, Scotty sang at a birthday party for fellow bluesman Artie White and preaches against violence and for love in the family : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGmQUrLJTOU He died Feb. 1, 2012 of complications from a heart attack: http://www.austinweeklynews.com/News/Articles/2-8-2012/Little-Scotty-has-gone-home/, Smilin Bobby, a singer and guitar player promoted by bass player Laurance Glasser, puts on a fine show, marked by his habitual grin, well-written songs, and stinging guitar leads. And this is Maxwell Street (CD, Rooster Blues)Recorded on Maxwell Street in 1964 for the documentary film And This Is Free, the original master tapes were discovered a few years ago and have now (October, 2000) been released as a three CD set. He hangs up the mic and takes a break to visit with fans and friends, then picks up a guitar for another song. With piano player Barrelhouse Bonni he produced his own CD album They Were in This House and published an autobiography Stepson of the Blues recorded for Wolf Records and played with his brothers Tim and Eddie Jr. and sisters Demetria, Edna and Brenda, and drummed on several Delmark Records including his uncles Jimmy and Eddie Burns. The Maxwell Street sound was created, beginning in the 1920s. Here he is in a 2008 Chicago Blues Fest reunion with other Maxwell Street stalwarts, Smilin Bobby and Dancin Perkins. We present some of the artists and promoters who influenced and helped develop the Maxwell Street sound; the musicians of the golden age of Chicago blues; the rock music that branched off from it; and the musicians who have continued to play it well into the 21st century. University Village Maxwell Clinic. (James Mayo, Chicago Tribune), Joe Caldwell sells string beans for 45 cents a pound, tomatoes for 25 cents and onions for 20 cents from his cart in the Maxwell Street area on Sept. 25, 1975. He found a mentor in John Henry Davis. Honey shares his epic 20th century travels with the most iconic of fellow bluesmen from Mississippi to Chicago. Growing up on local streets and working at a variety of local jobs, she became embedded in the working lives of the neighborhood, vividly depicted later both in her original short stories and in pages of memoirs. His partners over the years have included John Embry, John Henry Davis and L.V. Thats where most of the Biblical stories come from.Chicago blues songwriter, arranger, bass player and producer Willie Dixon, in his autobiography I Am the Blues, .a poets view: Maxwell Street: Confluence of blood and heart: One Beat, Poet Sterling Plumpp and guitarist Jimmie Lee Robinson break it down in rhythm:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZVyOiUypQs, Maxwell Street is significant to the history of blues not just because music was performed there, but because music was created there. The Maxwell Street parking lot will remain open for UI Health clinic patients and staff and other authorized personnel. it's across the street from public housing, and at night, it's dark. Sonny Boy Williamson, Sugar Mama, The Essential Recordings of Sonny Boy Williamson (CD Indigo)A collection of tracks recorded between 1937 and 1942 in Chicago and nearby Aurora, Illinois. Maxwell Street was just a whole way of life, you really cant explain it unless you were there. 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