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Thread #23952 Message #269404
Posted By: Jim the Bart
01-Aug-00 - 09:50 AM
Thread Name: MUSIC IN YOUR TOWN
Subject: RE: MUSIC IN YOUR TOWN
Chicago is a good town, but a hard town. We have more weather than most people want - although lately it doesn't get quite as bitterly cold in the winter and we still haven't had a day in the nineties this summer. There is a lot of music, but you have to search it out; escept for the Blues (capital "B") which is one of our recognized exportable commodities and can be found almost anywhere.
We have the Old Town School of Folk Music and a bunch of local coffeehouses. We are a few hours from Door County, Wisconsin and not far from the Covered Bridge and Bean Blossom Festivals in Indiana. We have the Midnight Special. Until recently we had Andrew Calhoun. We used to have John Prine and Steve Goodman and Bob Gibson and so many others. They grow here for a while and then we send them out to pollinate.
I read somewhere last week that Chicago has the best music scene, particularly Alt-Country, this side of Austin, Texas. If my roots here weren't so deep I think I'd move to Austin. Now that town has something special going for it. . .