Chicago blues
The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by adding electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes saxophone to the basic guitar/harmonica Delta blues. The music developed mainly as a result of the "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial cities of the North such as Chicago in particular, in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Notable Chicago blues musicians
Below is a list of notable Chicago blues musicians (and groups) alphabetized by first name (or stage name):
- Big Maceo Merriweather
- Big Walter Horton
- The Blues Brothers
- Bonnie Lee
- Boston Blackie
- Buddy Guy
- Charlie Musselwhite
- Carie Bell
- David "Honeyboy" Edwards
- Detroit Junior
- Dion Payton
- Earl Hooker
- Elmore James
- Erwin Helfer
- Fenton Robinson
- Homesick James
- Hound Dog Taylor
- Howlin' Wolf
- Hubert Sumlin
- J.B. Lenoir
- Jimmy Cotton
- Jimmy Dawkins
- Jimmy Johnson
- Jimmy Rogers
- John Brim
- Johnny Shines
- J.T. Brown
- Junior Wells
- Kansas Joe McCoy
- Koko Taylor
- Kokomo Arnold
- Little Walter
- Lonnie Brooks
- Lovie Lee
- Luther Allison
- Lurrie Bell
- Magic Sam
- Magic Slim
- Mighty Joe Young
- Mike Bloomfield
- Muddy Waters
- Otis Rush
- Otis Spann
- Papa Charlie McCoy
- Paul Butterfield
- Pinetop Perkins
- Robert Nighthawk
- Robert Lockwood Jr.
- Snooky Pryor
- Son Seals
- Sonny Boy Williamson
- Sunnyland Slim
- Tail Dragger
- Willie Dixon
- Willie Kent
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