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Chicago Blues Festival, Grant Park

Chicago, IL
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06/10/1988
Otis Rush
Set 1Otis Rush intro jam
All Your Love *
Crosscut Saw *
I Wonder Why *
Buddy Guy intro jam ^
Five Long Years ^
Look Over Yonder Wall ^
The Things That I Used To Be ^
I Smell A Rat ^ > Gambler's Blues *^
Commentw/* Otis Rush & ^ Buddy Guy
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06/10/1988
Otis Rush & Buddy Guy
Set 1Otis Rush intro jam, All Your Love*, Crosscut Saw*, I Wonder Why*, Buddy Guy intro jam*^, Five Long Years^, Look Over Yonders Wall^, The Things That I Used To Do^, I Smell A Rat^> Gamblers Blues*^
Comment*w/Otis Rush, ^Buddy Guy
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06/11/1988
Lonnie Brooks
Set 1Cold Lonely Night?
Classic Lonnie Tune?
If I Get My Hand On You?
That Ain't Right?
Sweet Home Chicago
Comment(Partial Set)
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06/10/1989
Solomon Burke
Set 1Intro
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
If You Need Me >
I Almost Lost My Mind
Cry To Me
Send Me Some Lovin'
Got To Get You Off My Mind
It's Just A Matter Of Time >
Just Out Of Reach >
I Can't Stop Loving You
Good Golly Miss Molly >
Tutti Frutti >
Outro
Comment6th annual blues fest
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06/10/1990
Luther Allison
Set 1All Your Love
Mad dog
Freedom *
Dust My Broom
Let's Do //It Again (tape flip)
Life Is a Bitch
Comment* Luther intros James Solberg, Wayne Bennett and Little Magic Sam
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06/06/1992
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Set 1Bits & Pieces
Leftover Blues
Got My Mojo Workin'
Unchained Melody
Dollar Got the Blues
Big Mammou (Gate on fiddle)
Up Jumped the Devil (Gate on fiddle)
Outro tune
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06/07/1992
Albert Collins
Set 1Instrumental Intros Of The Icebreakers
Iceman
Lights Are On & Nobody's Home
Put The Shoe On The Other Foot
My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone
Ice Pickin' ?
Same Old Thing
Please Mr. Collins, Don't Play So Loud ?
Things I Used To Do
Do You Feel It? *
So Long *
Here She Come *
Comment* = w/ Lowell Fulson
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06/07/1992
Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings
Set 1Instrumental
Play On (Party)
I Smell a Rat
Since I Found a New Love
A Little Bit of Your Love
Rainy Night in Georgia
Let the Good Times Roll
Wang Dang Doodle*
CommentMartin Allbritton (guitar, vocals)
Gene “Daddy G” Barge (vocals, tenor saxophone)
Bob Halaj (bass)
Willie Hayes (drums)
David Mick (guitar)
Terry Ogolini (tenor saxophone)
*Koko Taylor (vocals)
Don Tenuto (trumpet)

WBEZ-FM broadcast.
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05/29/1993
Johnny Copeland
Set 1Excuses
Cut Off My Right Arm
Catch Up With The Blues
Greater Man
Bye Bye Baby
Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat
Texas Party
Nobody But You
Learned My Lesson
Around The World
Big Time
Life's Rainbow (Nature Song)
Flyin' High (Yesterday)
Commentw/Joe "Guitar" Hughes & Hank Crawford
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06/04/1994
Billy Boy Arnold
Set 1Mean Disposition
Band Intros & Intro of Billy Boy Armold & Lacy Gibson
I Wish You Would > Rockinitis
You Got Me Wrong
I Ain't Got You
Prisoner's Plea
Wanderin' Eye
Fool For You
Fine Young Girl
Streetwise Advisors
Set 2
Set 3
CommentBilly Boy Arnold with Lacy Gibson and The Bob Margolin Band

► The Performers ◄
Chuck Cotton - drums
Steve Hunt - bass
Bob Margolin - guitar, vocals
- with special guests -
Billy Boy Arnold - harmonica, vocals
Lacey Gibson - guitar
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06/02/1995
Robert Jr. Lockwood
Set 1King Biscuit Time
I'm Just Your Fool
Lockwood's Boogie *
Tell Me What's In Store
Hangin' On
Ramblin' On My Mind
Stop Breakin' Down
This Is The Blues
Everyday I Have The Blues
Mojo Hand
Comment* Intro Robert T3
Time: 41:49
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06/04/1995
Magic Slim & The Teardrops
Set 1Do Everything I Say
I Believe I'll Go
It's a Shame
I've Got So Much Trouble
Mustang Sally
So Easy to Love You
The Blues Are All Right
CommentJohn Primer additional guitar; NOT June 3rd 1995--festival program & witness accounts verify June 4th as correct date, not June 3rd as noted on etree and elsewhere.
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06/08/2000
Little Milton
Set 1Eddie Cusic & Little Milton Campbell--Ludella
Eddie Cusic & Little Milton Campbell--Catfish Blues
Eddie Cusic & Little Milton Campbell--Little Angel Child
Little Milton Campbell--Gonna Send You Back to Georgia
Little Milton Campbell--The Same Thing
Little Milton Campbell--Going Down Slow
Little Milton Campbell--Stage banter
Little Milton Campbell & Warren Haynes--It Hurts Me Too
Little Milton Campbell & Warren Haynes--I Ain’t Superstitous
Little Milton Campbell & Warren Haynes--The Sky Is Crying
CommentFron the Juke Joint Stage.
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06/08/2000
Little Milton
Set 1Eddie Cusic & Little Milton Campbell--Ludella
Eddie Cusic & Little Milton Campbell--Catfish Blues
Eddie Cusic & Little Milton Campbell--Little Angel Child
Little Milton Campbell--Gonna Send You Back to Georgia
Little Milton Campbell--The Same Thing
Little Milton Campbell--Going Down Slow
Little Milton Campbell--Stage banter
Little Milton Campbell & Warren Haynes--It Hurts Me Too
Little Milton Campbell & Warren Haynes--I Ain’t Superstitous
Little Milton Campbell & Warren Haynes--The Sky Is Crying

CommentAcoustic performances from the Juke Joint Stage.
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06/09/2000
Lonnie Brooks, Long John Hunter & Phillip Walker
Set 1Phillip Walker--Crying for My Baby
Phillip Walker--She Left Me to Sing the Blues
Long John Hunter--Take It Home with You
Long John Hunter--Time and Time Again
Lonnie Brooks--Two-Headed Man
Lonnie Brooks--Feel Good Doin' Bad
Brooks/Hunter/Walker--Street Walking Woman
Brooks/Hunter/Walker--Roll Roll Roll
Brooks/Hunter/Walker--Boogie Rambler
Brooks/Hunter/Walker--You're Playing Hooky
Comment"The Lone Star Shootout" also includes Wayne Baker Brooks.
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06/08/2001
Magic Slim & The Teardrops
Set 1Highway 49 [the Teardrops only]
Drowning on Dry Land [the Teardrops only]
Just One More Time
Look Over Yonders Wall
Ain’t That Nice
Ain’t That Just Like a Woman
Talk to Me Baby (I Can’t Hold Out)
On Your Way Down
CommentFrom the Front Porch Stage
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06/09/2001
Otis Rush
Set 1Instrumental 1
Instrumental 2
Keep on Loving Me Baby
I Walk the Back Streets
All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
Looking Back (Take a Look Behind)
You Broke My Heart (?)
So Many Roads So Many Trains
Cross-Cut Saw
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05/31/2002
James Cotton
CommentFrom the Petrillo Music Shell stage.
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05/31/2002
Bo Diddley & Billy Boy Arnold
Set 1Clifton James--Next Time You See Me
Jody Williams--Lucky Lou
Jody Williams--You May
Billy Boy Arnold--I Wish You Would
Billy Boy Arnold--Bad Luck Blues
Bo Diddley--Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley--Boss Man Blues
Bo Diddley--Hey Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley & Shirley Dixon--Crackin' Up
Comment50th anniversary reunion of Bo Diddley and some of his original sidemen, including Ken Saydak and Robert Stoger.
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06/10/2005
Jody Williams
Set 1Lucky Lou
Lifelong Lover
St James Infirmary
I'll Be There
Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am
You Left Me in the Dark
Lucky Lou (reprise)
CommentWith the Willie Henderson Horns.
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06/09/2007
Irma Thomas
Set 1Stone Survivor
In The Middle Of It All
If You Want It, Come And Get It
Hold Me While I Cry
You Can Have My Husband (But Don't Mess With My Man)
Big Old Butt
Dr. Feelgood
You Don't Know Nothin' About Love
Sing It
Loving Arms >
The Same Old Thing
I Just Can't Get New Orleans Off My Mind
I Done Got Over > Iko Iko > Hey Pocky Way > I Done Got over
CommentIrma Thomas And The Professionals

(Petrillo Music Shell)
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