Chicago blues

Return to the source of inspiration with these Windy City blues guitar classics

“I’ve kept doing it so people don’t forget Muddy and Wolf, B.B. – all the rest of ’em,” says the Strat-toting blues guru

How the blues icon met Jimi (and was invited to kick Leonard Chess’s butt!)

Arriving in Chicago from Baton Rouge in 1957, Buddy was a starving musician when he was “fed by the Mud”

“I said to myself, I want to do something the rest of the kids can’t do. And I thought, I want to play the guitar,” says the blues icon

Video The producer, bassist and immensely prolific songwriter was responsible for some of the blues’ – and popular music’s – most enduring hits

Video The biggest, baddest voice of the Chicago blues scene, Wolf was a far-reaching inspiration

The father of modern Chicago electric blues along with Little Walter, Willie Dixon, James Cotton, Otis Span, Tat Harris and others work their mojo on this collection of groundbreaking masterpieces

“You had to be tough to play there,” says the KTBA Records star

From Mississippi Fred McDowell to Cedric Burnside, here’s how a new generation is taking the juke joint sound forward