When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. From his first album, 1986's Cold is the Night, to his most recent, JLW, Walker has fearlessly ...

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Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Barry Goldberg, a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in the 1960s, including the notorious 1965 Newport Folk Festival concert ...

Acclaimed blues-rock musician Barry Goldberg, who was part of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band when it backed Bob Dylan during his legendary electric outing at the otherwise-acoustic Newport Folk ...

Nick Gravenites performs in San Francisco in 1977 Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty Images Nick Gravenites, a Chicago blues musician who relocated to San Francisco in the 1960s and played an important role ...