LIT Music Awards Gold - Terry Blade

2025

Chicago Kinfolk: The Juke Joint Blues

Entrant Company

Terry Blade

Category

LIT Music Album - Best Blues Album

Client's Name

Terry Blade

Country / Region:

United States

"Chicago Kinfolk: The Juke Joint Blues" is an ethnographic blues music album by Chicago-based singer-songwriter Terry Blade. The album aims to honor the trailblazers and pioneers of Chicago blues music, including Theresa Needham (The Godmother of Chicago Blues), Muddy Waters Jr., Jimmy Walker, Lefty Dizz, and Willie Monroe.

The album features original blues songs written, performed, and recorded by Blade; Blade's rendition of a song Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup recorded in Chicago in 1946; and excerpts from interviews with well-known Chicago blues musicians in May 1977. The audio recordings of these interviews are in the public domain and were curated through Blade's research of the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection of the American Folklife Center at the U.S. Library of Congress.

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