Our (fairly) regular roundup of Music & Arts related news from Chicago-based web media, featuring thoughts and insight from some of the city’s most dedicated writers.
- The Secret History of Chicago Music: Tail Dragger
The Secret History of Chicago: a Howlin’ Wolf imitator who did time for shooting a fellow bluesman dead.
by Plastic Crimewave [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] - Tim’m West and the masculine mystique
Tim’m West has shown that there’s more than one way to be a black gay man.
by David Zarley
Standing in the stark white stage lights in a darkened theater on the third floor of the Center on Halsted, stripped of a beat and sharing a spoken-word bill with a group of teenagers he’s coached on both poetry and survival, Tim’m West is doing something rare, even among musicians who’ve pioneered a sound: he’s turning his art into something bigger. West is solidly built, with a stoic countenance and a voice that begins as a low rumble, an idling diesel engine that glides into a smooth brass baritone.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] - Around Town: Balance
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