Collection Remembers A Champion Of The Local Soul Music Scene

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Collection Remembers A Champion Of The Local Soul Music Scene

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Bob Abrahamian was an archivist, music historian and obsessive record collector. His radio show, ‘Sitting in the Park,’ on WHPK in Hyde Park featured Chicago soul artists, sometimes being the only platform for that music. Abrahamian died in 2014, but his radio shows live on through the Web. And it may get a bigger audience now, as record label Numero Group just released a collection of Abrahamian’s shows