Chicago blues

blues music that developed in Chicago by adding electricity, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes saxophone to the basic string/harmonica Delta blues. The music developed mainly as a result of the "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial cities of the North, and Chicago in particular, in the first half of the twentieth century.

Chicago blues musicians include:

• Big Maceo Merriweather
• Big Walter Horton
• Billy Boy Arnold
• Billy Branch
• Buddy Guy
• Champion Jack Dupree
• Elmore James
• Hound Dog Taylor
• Howlin' Wolf
• J.B. Hutto
• J.B. Lenoir
• Jimmy Cotton
• Jimmy Dawkins
• Jimmy Rogers
• John Brim
• John Primer
• Johnny Shines
• Junior Wells
• KoKo Taylor
• Little Walter
• Lonnie Brooks
• Luther Allison
• Magic Sam
• Mighty Joe Young
• Muddy Waters
• Otis Rush
• Otis Spann
• Paul Butterfield
• Robert Lockwood Jr.
• Robert Nighthawk
• Snooky Pryor
• Son Seals
• Sonny Boy Williamson
• Willie Dixon

Blues | Blues genres
Classic female blues - Country blues - Delta blues - Jazz blues - Jump blues - Piano blues
Blues-rock - Soul blues
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