Various: History of Chicago Music 1908-1980

The mighty reissue and archival label Numero Group has put together a whopping three-hour mix chronicling the history of Chicago recording studios (such as the legendary Chess, pictured above), and it's entirely free (thanks to the recordings' being mostly in the public domain). Beginning with the prolific Edison cylinder artist Billy Murray's 1908 tune "I'm Afraid to Go Home in the Dark", and ending in 1980 with the Buzzards' "Where's My Dog" ("just before the rise of Chicago's house music scen...

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