Born in Chicago
In 1960, a group of white teenage Chicago musicians traveled to the city's southside music clubs to learn the blues from the original masters. This is their story. Born In Chicago is a soulful documen…
Born in Chicago
In 1960, a group of white teenage Chicago musicians traveled to the city's southside music clubs to learn the blues from the original masters. This is their story. Born In Chicago is a soulful documentary film that chronicles a uniquely musical passing of the torch. It's the story of first generation blues performers who had made their way to Chicago from the Mississippi Delta and their ardent and unexpected followers - young white, middle class kids who followed the evocative music to smoky clubs deep in Chicago's ghettos. Passed down from musician to musician, the Chicago blues transcended the color lines of the 1960s as young, white Chicago musicians apprenticed themselves to legends such as Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. —Anonymous "Born in Chicago" is a feature-length documentary film telling the story of how, in the early 1960s, a small group of Chicago teenagers traveled to the city's southside and westside music clubs to learn the blues at the feet of the original masters, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and others. —Anonymous In the late 1950s the dynamic Chicago blues scene was at a crossroads. The music's patriarchs-Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf--were still vital and playing regularly at the many blues clubs on the city's south side. But the scene had peaked, as young African Americans were discovering the sounds of Motown, Stax and the soul of James Brown. The new generation saw the blues of their parents and grandparents as antiquated, a remnant of an era best left to the past. At the same time white adolescents-in the suburbs of Chicago and other cities-were listening to black radio stations late at night and were just discovering this mysterious and forbidden music. In the early sixties young white musicians from Chicago's suburbs began to venture to Chicago's South side to see in person the music they had been hearing on the radio. Soon, these musicians-among them Mike Bloomfield Barry Goldberg and Harvey Mandel--befriended their musical heroes and soon became accepted among the musicians playing at Chicago's black blues clubs. BORN IN CHICAGO, a new feature documentary, tells this fascinating story through the voices of those who were there and extensive use of rarely seen archival footage. The film, written by respected music historian Joel Selvin, includes interviews with Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Steve Miller, Harvey Mandel, Charlie Musselwhite, Barry Goldberg, Hubert Sumlin, Corky Seigel and others. BORN IN CHICAGO, a Ravin' Film, was Executive Produced by Jim Belushi, narrated by Dan Aykroyd and directed by John Anderson (Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story, Brian Wilson Presents Smile) and Bob Sarles (BANG. The Bert Berns Story, Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield). Original music for the film was composed by Jimmy Vivino and Barry Goldberg. —Ravin' Films
Born in Chicago
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In 1960, a group of white teenage Chicago musicians traveled to the city's southside music clubs to learn the blues from the original masters. This is their story. Born In Chicago is a soulful documentary film that chronicles a uniquely musical passing of the torch.
It's the story of first generation blues performers who had made their way to Chicago from the Mississippi Delta and their ardent and unexpected followers - young white, middle class kids who followed the evocative music to smoky clubs deep in Chicago's ghettos. Passed down from musician to musician, the Chicago blues transcended the color lines of the 1960s as young, white Chicago musicians apprenticed themselves to legends such as Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. —Anonymous "Born in Chicago" is a feature-length documentary film telling the story of how, in the early 1960s, a small group of Chicago teenagers traveled to the city's southside and westside music clubs to learn the blues at the feet of the original masters, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and others.
—Anonymous In the late 1950s the dynamic Chicago blues scene was at a crossroads. The music's patriarchs-Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf--were still vital and playing regularly at the many blues clubs on the city's south side. But the scene had peaked, as young African Americans were discovering the sounds of Motown, Stax and the soul of James Brown.
The new generation saw the blues of their parents and grandparents as antiquated, a remnant of an era best left to the past. At the same time white adolescents-in the suburbs of Chicago and other cities-were listening to black radio stations late at night and were just discovering this mysterious and forbidden music. In the early sixties young white musicians from Chicago's suburbs began to venture to Chicago's South side to see in person the music they had been hearing on the radio.
Soon, these musicians-among them Mike Bloomfield Barry Goldberg and Harvey Mandel--befriended their musical heroes and soon became accepted among the musicians playing at Chicago's black blues clubs. BORN IN CHICAGO, a new feature documentary, tells this fascinating story through the voices of those who were there and extensive use of rarely seen archival footage. The film, written by respected music historian Joel Selvin, includes interviews with Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, B.B.
King, Buddy Guy, Steve Miller, Harvey Mandel, Charlie Musselwhite, Barry Goldberg, Hubert Sumlin, Corky Seigel and others. BORN IN CHICAGO, a Ravin' Film, was Executive Produced by Jim Belushi, narrated by Dan Aykroyd and directed by John Anderson (Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story, Brian Wilson Presents Smile) and Bob Sarles (BANG. The Bert Berns Story, Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield).
Original music for the film was composed by Jimmy Vivino and Barry Goldberg. —Ravin' Films.