“In a world of barroom entertainers Fenton Robinson was a serious musician who is best appreciated with greater concentration than the audience usually gave him” - Bruce Iglauer, Alligator Records
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The West Side Soul of Chicago Blues Originally Posted on August 22, 2021–Blues For A Big Town As told numerous times, the emergence of Urban Blues was a by-product of the Great Migration of African Americans from the southern U.S. to points north. Undoubtedly affected, (for different reasons), by the Great Depression (1929-1933) and the War, millions of Blacks left...