CONTENTS FEATURES RESOURCES City Winery TOP SPOTS FOR CHICAGO BLUES FROM LEGENDARY WAYNE BAKER BROOKS like Koko Taylor, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, and more. As a teenager, Wayne started playing guitar with his father’s band and eventually went on to form his own group, the Wayne Baker Brooks Band. His experience growing up around Chicago blues greats laid the foundation for his own innovative style. Today, Brooks is a music legend in his own right. A Chicago Blues Hall of Famer, Brooks has shared a stage Wayne Baker Brooks knows a thing or two about the blues — and Chicago. The famed blues-rock guitarist has graced the stages of the city’s most iconic blues venues during his more than 30-year career. Wayne grew up on the city’s south side, living in Bronzeville, Englewood, and other neighborhoods. His father Lonnie Brooks was a Chicago blues master, and Wayne remembers watching him play alongside icons with some of the genre’s biggest names and toured the world with his band. But no matter where he’s playing, he’s still a Chicagoan at heart. “I’m repping Chicago everywhere I go,” Brooks says. “This is where the greatest blues men and women live. Nowhere on earth do you have a concentration of great musicians in one spot like this, and that’s what makes the place unique.” Here are just a few of Wayne Baker Brooks’ favorite places to play and hear blues music in Chicago. GRAHAM CHAPMAN 6 choosechicago.com
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