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Corky Siegel

Known internationally as one of the worlds great blues harmonica players, blues pianist, singer-songwriter, and the sole pioneer/composer of award-winning revolutionary works that weave blues and classical forms together. Co-founder of the SIEGEL-SCHWALL BAND, Blues Hall of Fame Inductee, with a catalogue of recordings on RCA, Vanguard, Alligator, and million selling blues/classical recordings on the iconic classical label Deutsche Grammophon. His close associations with the blues masters in the earlier days of chicago blues, his essential part in the blues rock revolution, and his surprising success in bringing together blues and classical audiences make him a pivotal (though stealth) figure in modern music history. Along with the likes of John Cage, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, and Meredith Monk, he is the recipient of a Meet the Composer/Reader’s Digest Commissioning Program for New American Music grant for chamber music composition resulting in his Chamber Blues ensemble’s popular Aunt Lila’s Suite; he has also been honored with the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award for Music Composition, the Chicago Music Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award, and induction into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame. Born Mark Paul Siegel in Chicago in 1943, Corky’s professional music career began when he founded the now legendary Siegel-Schwall Band in Chicago in 1964 with guitarist Jim Schwall

Corky Siegel

Born: October 24, 1943

Corky Siegel

Known internationally as one of the worlds great blues harmonica players, blues pianist, singer-songwriter, and the sole pioneer/composer of award-winning revolutionary works that weave blues and classical forms together. Co-founder of the SIEGEL-SCHWALL BAND, Blues Hall of Fame Inductee, with a catalogue of recordings on RCA, Vanguard, Alligator, and million selling blues/classical recordings on the iconic classical label Deutsche Grammophon. His close associations with the blues masters in the earlier days of chicago blues, his essential part in the blues rock revolution, and his surprising success in bringing together blues and classical audiences make him a pivotal (though stealth) figure in modern music history. Along with the likes of John Cage, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, and Meredith Monk, he is the recipient of a Meet the Composer/Reader’s Digest Commissioning Program for New American Music grant for chamber music composition resulting in his Chamber Blues ensemble’s popular Aunt Lila’s Suite; he has also been honored with the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award for Music Composition, the Chicago Music Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award, and induction into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame. Born Mark Paul Siegel in Chicago in 1943, Corky’s professional music career began when he founded the now legendary Siegel-Schwall Band in Chicago in 1964 with guitarist Jim Schwall

Fast Mikey Blue Eyes

By Mike Felten

Label: Landfill Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Three Drinks In; Detroit Woman; Dead Old Girlfriend; See That My Grave Is Kept Clean; A Girl Walks Into A Bar; Chasing A Rumor; Homan Avenue; Godzilla Jones; 2302; Y'all Are Guilty; Where The White Lady Lives; Like Listening to Charlie Parker.

Corky Siegel

By Corky Siegel

Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Opus 17.2; Five Planets in Harmonica Convergence; Manhattan Island; Serenade; The Woofy Girl Stroll; Train; Opus 4 (1/2 of Opus 8).

Corky Siegel: Corky Siegel

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 16, 2005

Harmonicat Corky Siegel is a four-decade veteran of the Chicago blues scene and co-leads the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band with guitarist Jim Schwall. Siegel held a long residency during the storied heyday of Pepper's Lounge in Chicago--ripping up and tearing down the blues with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and other legends--during which he was befriended ...

Street Music

By Corky Siegel

Label: RCS Records
Released: 1977