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2120 South Michigan Avenue, home of Chicago's Chess Records, may be the most important address in the bloodline of the blues and rock n' roll.
It is also George Thorogood's electrifying new CD and tribute show to the Chess label and its immortal artists.
Over time, Chess' catalog and artists became the sources of Thorogood's higher education in music.
Some of the songs from the Chess catalog heard on 2120 South Michigan Avenue were staples of the Destroyers' live repertoire; Thorogood says, A lot of the things I recorded I was doing 25 or 30 years ago, and I had stopped doing them.
The historic music heard on 2120 South Michigan Avenue didn't merely change George Thorogood's life, as he himself notes. It's not a musical phenomenon, it's a social phenomenon. it's a social phenomenon. The man who created rock n' roll was Chuck Berry, and he listened to Muddy Waters. Bo Diddley went to the same school and listened to the same people. Rock n' roll changed the whole world. That never would have happened if it hadn't been for Chess Records. It's the source of the whole thing.
Source :
www.lecapitole.com/en/theatre.calendrier.php?id=1501
Links :
www.georgethorogood.com
Artistes : George Thorogood, The Destroyers,
Category : Spectacle | Music | Concert | Rock
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