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    Maxwell Street Blues

    1981 · Documentary · 56m

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  1. voices.uchicago.edu › findingchicago › 2020/09/17Maxwell Street: A History of Racial and Cultural Integration

    Sep 17, 2020 · Gradually, the country blues shifted to urban blues, played through guitar amplifiers, and accompanied by drum and bass in the busy Maxwell Street Market. As the blues music was slowly woven into the vibe of Maxwell Street, black musicians like Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Bo Diddley (Smith 2014) who had played in this music community went ...

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    • Electrified: The Story of the Maxwell Street Urban Blues (2008)
    • Maxwell Street Blues [DVD] [1981] - Best Buy
    • Maxwell Street Alley Blues by Robert Crumb at the Illustration Art Gallery
    • Maxwell Street Blues | July 10, 1994 | Dan Parker | Flickr
    • Blues From Maxwell Street - Historic Recordings From Maxwell Street ...

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  3. maxwellstreetfoundation.org › historyHistory - Maxwell Street Foundation

    Maxwell Street was home to one memorable market and an evolving, overlapping parade of many cultures. It was also the birthplace of electrified Chicago blues. The market. Maxwell Street is most known for the lively open-air market that bears its name. At its height, it stretched seven city blocks.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Maxwell_StreetMaxwell Street - Wikipedia

    The Maxwell Street neighborhood is considered part of the Near West Side and is one of the city's oldest residential districts. It is notable as the location of the celebrated Maxwell Street Market and the birthplace of Chicago blues and the "Maxwell Street Polish", a sausage sandwich.

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  6. chicagobluessociety.org › blues-documentariesBlues Documentaries - Chicago Blues Society

    Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street. For over 120 years, Chicago’s Maxwell Street served immigrants and poor people as an open air market. Dubbed the “Ellis Island of the Midwest”, it was also the known as “New Orleans of the north”, the birthplace of modern blues.

  7. facets.org › programs › maxwell-street-bluesMaxwell Street Blues | FACETS

    This documentary captures the tail end of the last great era of blues music on Maxwell Street. Artists like Arvella Gray, Jim Brewer, John Henry David, Coot Venson, Floyd Jones, and Carrie Robinson may look a little worse for the wear as they play among the rubble of Maxwell Street on their beat-up instruments, but their raw, hard-hitting, and ...

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  9. maxwellstreetfoundation.org › history › the-musicThe Music - Maxwell Street Foundation

    West Side blues and soul singer and drummer, stepson of guitarist Eddie Taylor Sr. and son of singer Vera Taylor, has played with dozens of Chicago blues masters including Junior Wells and A.C. Reed, and proudly carries the tradition of West Side soul and Maxwell Street blues into the 21st century.

  10. maxwellstreetfoundation.org › history › timelineTimeline - Maxwell Street Foundation

    1840-1860. EARLY MAXWELL STREET. 1860-1920. IMMIGRATION & MIGRATION. 1920-1950. BLUES & ENTREPRENEURSHIP. 1950-2005. URBAN RENEWAL AND REDEVELOPMENT. 1849. When the city of Chicago incorporated in 1837, its geographic boundaries included the area on which Maxwell Street was later platted.

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