• Artist:
  Little Mack Simmons
• Album:
  Light: On the South Side
• Track:
  The Same One

Hardcore blues fans might bristle at some of the tracks (available only on a 2 LP set) that accompany the 128 page, 12" x 12" book that is the centerpiece of the Numero Group's latest, Grammy-worthy, act of music archiving, Light: On The South Side. Those folks would be missing the point. These funky Blues records by local Chicago artists are not Chess Records or Alligator Records, nor are the...

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• Artist:
  Charles Kynard
• Album:
  Your Mama Don't Dance
• Track:
  I Got So Much Trouble

The OriginalSir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul cut one LP for GSF records around 1972. Leader and founder Joe Quarterman was from the D.C. area and was a contemporary of the Godfather of Go Go, Chuck Brown. Their first single (I Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind was a regional and national (# 30 R&B) hit and they were generally well received. They were "the band" around DC but Sir Joe had other ideas...

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