The Roadhouse 516
We’re at the corner of Maxwell and Halstead this week with an hour given over entirely to Chicago. Focused on the years from the mid-1940s to the early-1970s, we hit what may be a sweet spot for Chicago blues. Little Walter, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Walter Horton – legendary names that helped define Chicago as The Home of the Blues. It’s another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 516th Roadhouse.
The Roadhouse Podcast 516 Show Notes
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Otis Spann’s South Side Piano
Spann’s Stomp
Vanguard
Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 1
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Howlin’ Wolf
Just Like I Treat You
Geffen
The Chess Box
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Little Walter
Dead Presidents
Hip-O Select
The Complete Chess Masters
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Magic Sam
All My Whole Life
Fuel 2000
The Essential Magic Sam: The Cobra and Chief Recordings
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Junior Wells
Checking On My Baby
Vanguard
It’s My Life Baby
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Koko Taylor
Just Love Me
Geffen
What It Takes: The Chess Years (Deluxe Edition)
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Otis Rush
Me
Collectables
Mourning In The Morning
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James Cotton
Burner
Sony
100% Cotton
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Big Bill Broonzy
When Will I Get To Be Called A Man?
Smithsonian Folkways
Trouble In Mind
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Jimmy Rogers
Act Like You Love Me
Geffen
Chicago Bound
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Willie Dixon
The Seventh Son
Sony
I Am The Blues
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Sonny Boy Williamson I
Shake The Boogie
Orange Leisure
The History of the Blues: Four
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Buddy Guy
Money (That’s What I Want)
Vanguard
A Man & The Blues
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Big Walter Horton
Have A Good Time
Alligator
Big Walter Horton with Carey Bell
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Muddy Waters
Short Dress Woman
Geffen
The Chess Box
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
I Got A Mind To Give Up Living
Elektra
East-West
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Siegel-Schwall Band
Shake For Me
Vanguard
Vanguard Visionaries: Siegal-Schwall Band
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Music Bed:
Magic Sam
Backstroke
Fuel 2000
The Essential Magic Sam: The Cobra and Chief Recordings
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