Business Hours. In 1956, Easy Baby moved to Chicago, playing all over town and working as a mechanic. His nickname came from a brief trip to that city after being rejected from military service in 1942. Robert Nighthawk on the And This Is FreeCD sings Prowlin Nighthawk, c. 1937. Born outside Memphis, TN, Johnny Shines moved to Arkansas at age 16 and became a follower and imitator of Howlin Wolf, then traveled with Robert Johnson, learning his masterful finger-picking and slide guitar style. 733 West Maxwell Street, Chicago, IL, 60607, United States (312) 455-9380 info@lalosonmaxwell.com. Brim also operated a dry cleaning business and a record store. Jims Original has served the city for more than eight decades. "It's one of the most fascinating real estate submarkets in the city right now," said Greg Longhini of the city planning department in 1988. His mother wanted him to be a cantor. The sound I heard was coming from an old, beat-up looking boom box. Upper floors in the tenements were often converted to garment manufacturing or sweatshops. At the end, Johnny appeals for donations to help fellow musician Piano C Red who had been shot in March in a robbery, his legs paralyzed. Maxwell Street was Chicago's Sunday morning. bjb. He may have been associated with the Johnny Dollar Catfish Stand on Maxwell Street. Maxwell Street Klezmer Band of Skokie, IL formed in 1983 and carries on at Chicago area Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, and tours in festivals.http://klezmerband.com/aboutus/history.htmlHeres a sample of their sound.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQeSsf9Sec, Romani (Gypsy) music, with its lively, plaintive fiddles and a kind of hammered dulcimer known as a cimbalom, is loved all over the world. The other definitive book on the development of urban blues, including Chicago Blues. With the worsening political, religious, and cultural environment, he made the decision to move his family to the U.S. His homemaker wife from a well-to-do family did raise objections to leaving. An undated photo of the Maxwell Street market at the height of its popularity. (George Thompson, Chicago Tribune), Maxwell Street watermelon man, Bob Webb, sets up his watermelon stand at Maxwell and Halsted streets on Aug. 10, 1987. More. It is notable as the location of the celebrated Maxwell . Sonny Boy Williamson, Sugar Mama, The Essential Recordings of Sonny Boy Williamson (CD Indigo)A collection of tracks recorded between 1937 and 1942 in Chicago and nearby Aurora, Illinois. "That's the secret down here." Just as in Africa, musicsinging and rhythm kept the community together, since slave times, as they coped with backbreaking labor, cruelty and injustice. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bobby-davis-mn0001952769/biography Moving to Chicago in 1957, with Roscoe Gordon and Baby Face Willette, Davis got a longtime gig at the Crown Propeller Club. http://paramountshome.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=95:mercy-mr-percy-that-is-surely-him&catid=45:new-york-recording-laboratoriesartist&Itemid=54Percy may have had other stage names as well. Maxwell Street watermelon man, Bob Webb, sets up his watermelon stand at Maxwell and Halsted streets on Aug. 10, 1987. Two, laughter, mirth, and humiliation, exposing the ludicrousness of vanity and self-righteous propaganda of an adversary were more effective weapons than historical physical confrontation, banishment, dungeons, even jails. He learned guitar as a boy with Eddie Taylor, left an abusive field boss for Chicago, worked at an iron foundry and began playing in small clubs and on Maxwell Street. Little Walter Jacobs was an exception; he played the street until he died. Website. Swain mapped out the streets favorite blues spots and wrote an article for Living Blues magazine July-Aug. 1975. Understanding an historical event in this project is realized by experiencing aspects of the lives of those struggling to find meaning in a place.They often had to challenge generations of tradition and customary belief including habits of provincial prejudice.The powers of established orthodoxies within national, religious, ethnic, race and gender identities were prevalent, often overpowering. Photo printed on Oct. 1, 1993. Born in Earle, Arkansas, Moody Jones migrated to Missouri and arrived in Chicago in 1939. (Chicago Tribune historical photo), University of Illinois security guard Zyad Hasan stands near a police barricade Sept. 9, 1994, where the old Maxwell Street market used to be at Maxwell and Halsted streets in Chicago. If you have questions regarding the content on this website please contact me at bjb@uic.edu. http://66.203.147.88/bluesoterica/index.asp. Our mission is to promote entrepreneurship and provide opportunities for small businesses, including farmers, artists, makers, restaurateurs and re-sellers, as we have been doing since 1912. In the 1960s and 70s, with his wife Fannie, he played with a gospel group.http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/blues-notes-marking-the-memory-of-jim-brewer/Content?oid=872505, Robinson, the spiffy, spur-wearing Lonely Traveler, issued his own Amina Records CD Maxwell Street Blues, and he mentions Maxwell Street in his unique jazzy version of Big Boss Man.Born and raised in the Maxwell Street neighborhood, Robinson played with Eddie Taylor, Memphis Minnie, Big Bill Broonzy, Elmore James, Little Water and many more postwar Chicago blues masters: http://delmark.com/rhythm.robinson.htm and into the 21st century with Frank Scott, Johnnie Mae Dunson and others who actively protested Maxwell Streets demolition, writing protest tunes and even going on a hunger strike. The programs were recorded on first generation video tape equipment. The front half of the apartment features trendy cement floors, exuding a modern and creative ambiance. (Phil Greer, Chicago Tribune), Sunday, Oct. 30, 1988, proved to be a typically busy day at the Maxwell Street market. For other public safety concerns, contact Metra Safety at (312) 322.7233 or email safetyreporting@metrarr.com. He taught himself harmonica hearing his upstairs Chicago neighbor, Little Walter Jacobs, practicing. that he sometimes helped pass the tip bucket for John Henry Davis, Harp player and Arizona blues club owner Bob Corritore also reported sitting in with John Henry Davis. 111th and Austin 6. I own the stand with my parents. For over 40 years, we have been providing some of the greatest sandwiches in the Chicagoland area Born in Vance, Mississippi, Sunnyland played the organ at local churches and movie theaters. Vera Green, left, and Maria Gutierez, right, ride floats as queens in a parade honoring the 100th anniversary of the Maxwell and Halsted Street business districts on Nov. 25, 1955. http://www.earlyblues.com/Blues%20Memories%20-%20Les%20Forgue.htm. (James Mayo, Chicago Tribune), Joe Caldwell sells string beans for 45 cents a pound, tomatoes for 25 cents and onions for 20 cents from his cart in the Maxwell Street area on Sept. 25, 1975. By the 1930s he was working with Sleepy John Estes and Sonny Boy Williamson I. Guitarist and harmonica player John Brim came to Chicago in 1947 via Indianapolis from Hopkinsville, KY. His wife Grace, born in Briscoe, AR was one of the few female postwar blues musiciansa capable drummer, singer and harmonica player on Johns and other recordings and one of her own. (James Mayo, Chicago Tribune), A fishmonger tries to catch the attention of shoppers on a cold Sunday at the Maxwell Street market on Feb. 3, 1974. Help Us Identify the Musicians in this 1979 video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYRBH4wXa1sContact us at (function(){var ml="edmni.4%gawx0fltsour",mi="43=A76<29;:0>>@?C00?=AB319?4A35AC8",o="";for(var j=0,l=mi.length;j