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Chicago in Mind

Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2000
Track listing: Ida Cox - Chicago Bound Blues; Priscilla Stewart - Mecca Flats Blues; Jimmy Blythe

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Chicago in Mind

by Ed Kopp
December 1, 2000

Chicago is best known for the electric blues style that arose there during the 1940s and continues to thrive today. Less celebrated is an earlier form of Chicago blues that originated in the 1920s. This acoustic style achieved great popularity during the Depression years when Southern blacks flocked to Chicago seeking jobs in the city’s factories, ...