This list from WBEZ and sister station Vocalo blurs lines and mixes genres, from hip-hop and R&B to indie rock, blues and jazz. 2024 brought forth a wealth of Chicago music spanning all genres.

John Primer is an American Chicago blues and electric ... something that only the best can manage. All of the tracks are true to the heart of the Blues and true to the originals but the two ...

Between Castiglia and Zito (who’s also president of blues/roots/Americana label Gulf Coast Records, which puts out many of ...

He was an incredible electric Chicago blues artist, with a powerful ... “Killing Floor” is one of the best Howlin’ Wolf songs to come out of the early 1960s. And according to many a fan ...

Living Blues magazine calls them one of the best blues bands in the land. The Chicago Tribune calls their ... fuel their razor-sharp original songs and unique reinvention of obscure blues classics.

Many of the songs ... Blues revival. This Mississippi Delta Blues style began to lose its importance just before W.W.II as the blacks and their new Blues moved from Mississippi to Chicago in ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and ... Delta blues grew up into modern Chicago blues. If you listen to Muddy Waters, for example ...