Various Artists - Antone’s 50th Presents Chicago Bound: Honoring Muddy, Cliff & Blue

Various Artists — Antone's 50th Presents Chicago Bound: Honoring Muddy, Cliff & Blue

150-gram vinyl LP

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Antones 50th Presents Chicago Bound: Honoring Muddy, Cliff & Blue caps the club's 50th anniversary celebration while pointing toward its future.

In 1975 Clifford Antone, obsessed with Chicago blues, created his namesake club in Austin, Texas, which quickly became a hub for young musicians from the region, including the Vaughan brothers, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Gary Clark Jr. and others. Antone turned the venue into "Austin's Home of the Blues," bringing in such legendary Chicago acts such as Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Pinetop Perkins, and Jimmy Reed. 

The album cover shows a lively, Chicago-bound tour bus packed with musicians racing to the next gig, illustrated by longtime club illustrator Diana Ray. Fittingly, album co-producer Zach Ernst conceived the project the night John Primer recorded a duo version of Jimmy Rogers's classic "Chicago Bound." As Ernst explains: "Beyond the song's deeper meaning-the journey through music cities by African-American artists seeking a better life and better pay than they could find in the South at the time-a ‘road trip record' or ‘truck stop cassette' felt like a creative way for Antone's to honor the great musicians who live on the road. It also traces a spiritual route from central Louisiana, home of Clifton Chenier's music, through Houston, Austin, Memphis, and on to Chicago."

1. Chicago Bound – John Primer

2. One Step at a Time – Ivan Neville & CC Adcock feat. Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood & Jimmie Vaughan

3. I Wouldn’t Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me) – Kam Franklin with Rodd Bland & the Dreamers

4. Give Me Back My Wig – Doyle Bramhall II

5. I’m Not Ashamed – Kim Wilson & the Fabulous Thunderbirds

6. Backstroke – Anson Funderburgh

7. The Blues Is So Big (Interlude) – Clifford Antone

8. Hangin’ on a Cliff - Billy F Gibbons & the BFGs

9. Act Like You Love Me – Lurrie Bell

10. Baby What’s Wrong – Lavelle White

11. Got My Mojo Working – John Primer & Lil’ Ed Williams feat. Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith

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