The Chicago Blues Festival returns to Grant Park this weekend. In celebration (and as a preview), WBEZ's Richard Steele spins some blues classics old and new, from Mavis Staples to Zora Young.
This year, WBEZ/Vocalo invested in some new cameras. For the first part of the year, we were working off our old trusted Flip video camera, which gave us the ability to capture video, but not really edit.
Collaboration is nothing new for legendary gospel singer Mavis Staples.She started her music career with what some might consider the toughest co-workers--her relatives!
Updated 12/16/2010: Download file changedAt this time of year it seems everyone's suddenly a music critic. There's no shortage of lists carefully ranking albums in order of cultural significance.
