East-West Maxwell Street
Date: Oct 21 | Time: 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Price: £10 in advance online only
The East-West Maxwell Street Band take their name from old Maxwell Street in Chicago that runs from East to West and was host to a cosmopolitan bustling impromptu ghetto market and the birth of Chicago Blues.
Blues on Maxwell Street
In the 1930s and 1940s, when many black musicians came to Chicago from the segregated South, they brought with them outdoor music. But when the early blues musicians began playing outside on Maxwell Street – the place where they could be heard by the greatest number of people – they realised they needed either a louder than standard Resonator guitar or amplifiers and electrical instruments in order to be heard. Over several decades, the use of these new instruments, and the interaction between established city musicians such as Big Bill Broonzy and new arrivals from the South, produced a new musical genre – electrified, urban blues, later coined, “Chicago Blues.”
This amplified, new sound was different from the acoustic country blues played in the South. It was popularized by blues giants such as Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Bo Diddley and Howlin’ Wolf.
The East-West Maxwell Street Band consists of four seasoned Blues Warriors Playing Chicago Blues
David Raphael
David Raphael
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Sepia Swing Show Twins
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Nick Hyde
Nick Hyde
Midnight Special Blues Band
Sepia Swing Show Twins
Uncle Buck
Eddie Masters
Eddie Masters
Nigel Bagge Band
Lonnie Donegan Band
Mick Clarke Band
Chris Sharley
Chris Sharley
Mick Clarke Band
Sassafras
Bad influence
Band photos copyright © Laurence Harvey and many thanks to Laurence for allowing us to use them.

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