Masters of Modern Blues (CD Testament records)Floyd Jones & Eddie Taylor Although recorded in 1966, the tracks hereespecially the ones featuring Floyd Jonesare very much what you would have heard Floyd and his cousin, Moody Jones, playing on Maxwell Street in the 40s and 50s. His babysitter was Memphis Minnie, an extraordinary singer, songwriter and guitar player who moved, like many of the musicians of the time, from the Delta to Memphis to Chicago. And this is Maxwell Street (CD, Rooster Blues)Recorded on Maxwell Street in 1964 for the documentary film And This Is Free, the original master tapes were discovered a few years ago and have now (October, 2000) been released as a three CD set. Brim also operated a dry cleaning business and a record store. Metal resonator guitars like the Dobro and National Steel helped; but when electric guitars were invented, the musicians quickly adopted the new amplifiers. Copyright 2017. JBs nephew, hard-rocking slide guitarist Little Ed Williams, began playing publicly in 1986, three years after J.B.s death in 1983, and recorded for Alligator Records. . In Chicago, the family lived in comfort on South Halsted Street until 1894, when the father died suddenly at the age of forty-four, leaving behind an impoverished widow and five small children. The Ashkenazi or Eastern Europeans reflected badly upon the enlightened and established assimilated Germans. Our menu and preparation are simple so I expect our customers would notice almost any change to the menu, but most definitely they would notice a change to the onions. American Folk Blues Festival (AFB) Vol 1, 1962-66: video (Universal Distribution)Why it took 40 years for these tapes to be released has not been adequately explained, but this much I know: European tours by American blues artists began in the late 50s, with Big Bill Broonzy. An undated photo of the Maxwell Street market. His hands were folded in front of him. (Walter Kale, Chicago Tribune), Hubcaps, rakes, brooms, shovels and more can be found at Maxwell Street's open-air market on Feb. 3, 1974. Soon he held North Side jobs at Kingston Mines and John Brims Broadway Night Club, plus a trip to Mississippi. 733 West Maxwell Street, Chicago, IL, 60607, United States (312) 455-9380 info@lalosonmaxwell.com. Todays favored Chicago blues songs date back to this era, when the blues hit its heyday on the R& B charts. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/johnny-dollar-mn0001416035 On the North Side he played at Lillys. He recorded for Elektra label in 1965, then on Testament and Takoma in the U.S. and Sonet and Flywright in Europe. Due to the University of Illinois Chicago's South Campus development the Maxwell Street market district was razed and the two stands moved in 2005. Maxwell Street blues reunion on small stage at 2008 Chicago Blues Fest:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIZ5tW-6E0M Featuring Robert Dancin' Perkins on bass, his long-time guitarist Riler Ice Man Robinson on guitar, Smilin Bobby Smith on guitar, Frank Little Sonny Scott on percussion, and Dancin Perkins son Chris (who began playing drums in his dads band on Maxwell Street at the age of 8) on drums. He began playing in traveling minstrel shows. According to the Tribune, a "marijuana and hashish enthusiast" sells slightly used drug paraphernalia on Maxwell Street on March 16, 1975. The historians universe neither privileges subjective fictions of myth and imaginative story telling nor objective sciences of measurement and numbers. including one on the northwest corner of Halsted and Maxwell owned . He came to Chicago in 1930 and began playing professionally with Johnny Young. Maxwell Street is an eastwest street in Chicago, Illinois that intersects with Halsted Street just south of Roosevelt Road. 11. He learned guitar from Houston Stackhouse in Mississippi. Hilda Satt, The Old Woman and the New World The Butterfly 3, no. . Her father, educated both in languages and mathematics and having learned the art of carving from his father, became a tombstone carver by trade, a skilled and well-paid occupation. That sounds like Robert Merrill the Metropolitan Opera baritone. Bobby had a blues show on public access TV Bobby's own son Eric Davis, a promising 40 year old guitarist with a family of his own, was cruelly shot to death in his car before Christmas 2013 on . Website View Menu. Born in Indianola, MS, raised on the same Woodburn Plantation as B.B. Hes best known for laying down the boogie behind his old homey Reed. It could also be stories about the problems, joys and sorrows of peoples daily liveswhat Chicago blues master Willie Dixon called blues: the facts of life., The whole of life itself expresses the blues. (Chicago Tribune historical photo), Just because the sign says bananas are 50 cents for 4 pounds doesn't mean a purchase on the Maxwell Street market will be without its bargaining on Sept. 20, 1966. Gary. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/grace-brim-mn0000161795/credits John wrote and recorded the suggestive song Ice Cream Man, which Chess didnt release til 1969. YEARS IN BUSINESS. The Maxwell Street parking lot will remain open for UI Health clinic patients and staff and other authorized personnel. This re-issue combines all three albums into a 3-disc set. The market moved east to Canal Street in 1994, when the Maxwell Street area was bought by the University of Illinois at Chicago. A seller adjusts a wig on a tempted buyer at the Maxwell Street market on Feb. 3, 1974. He came north from Clarksdale, MS but spent most of his life in Detroit and later in California. Robert Nighthawk on the And This Is FreeCD sings Prowlin Nighthawk, c. 1937. Maxwell Street Grill has great (open 24/7 day) Chicago Italian Sausage sandwiches, hot dogs, burgers, Gyros at a reasonable price. I Love Chicago! This is a tremendously enjoyable recording and as real as it gets. In 1956, Easy Baby moved to Chicago, playing all over town and working as a mechanic. Delmark Records owner Bob Koester, met Big Joe in 1951 and recorded him. Find 5 listings related to Maxwell Street Grill in Homewood on YP.com. Polish sausage. Accompanying him on some of the 24 tracks here areBig Joe Williams, Robert Lee McCoy, Henry Townsend, Yank Rachell, Walter Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind John Davis, Washboard Sam and Charlie McCoy. (Edward Feeney/Chicago Tribune), According to the Tribune, a "marijuana and hashish enthusiast" sells slightly used drug paraphernalia on Maxwell Street on March 16, 1975. His statue keeps a vigil on the gentrified 21st century Maxwell Street. He played harp on Testaments Masters of Chicago Blues album featuring Eddie Taylor and Floyd Jones. In three decades, Chicago had quickly risen to a premier central city in theworlds economy. (Chicago Tribune historical photo), Sarah Neiman, from left, and George Cohen weigh fish and chat with customers Bertha Bluestein, Sophie Paletz and Olive Greenburg at the Maxwell Street market, circa May 18, 1934 (Chicago Tribune historical photo), A Maxwell Street vegetable merchant in May 1939. It was a perfect summer day. "There is the sharp odor of garlic, sizzling redhots, spoiling fruit, aging cheese, and the strong suspect smell of pickled fish," the Trib's Lloyd Wendt wrote. (Walter Kale, Chicago Tribune), Former U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy visits Maxwell Street in March 1972. 08/03/2020 - KAREN Very friendly and the food (pork chop sandwich) was so good! Her holy dance for the song Power from this video was adapted, in a more secular fashion, on stage by the British rock group, the Rolling Stones. Henry Ford funded a printing of a half-million copies of The Protocols distributed throughout the U.S.. bjb, Copyright 2017. Ragtime. Dorsey explained to Living Blues Magazine, See, you didntt have the blues singers. In his early teens, he learned how to play guitar from a South Side neighbor. In the Chicago Reader Oct. 13, 1988, David Whiteis recalls that John Embry died in 1985only days after playing Maxwell Street on the last warm Sunday morning in late October.http://www.chicagobluesguide.com/reviews/cd-reviews/queen-sylvia-john-embry-cd/queen-sylvia-john-embry-cd-page.html, Ice Man worked hard all his life, from the chemical plant in Marks, Mississippi, to a meat packing plant in Chicago. Melrose set up his own studio, recording 90 per cent of all RCA Victor and Columbias African American artists between 1934 and 1951, according to Mike Rowes book Chicago Blues. Suffering from poor health, Left Hand Frank moved to California to join his sister, retired from music, and died in 1992. Born in Horn Lake MS, according to Edward Komaras Blues Encyclopedia, Horton played with musicians in Memphis and recorded on sessions with Sun Records.He toured the south with various musicians such as Big Joe Williams, Honeyboy Edwards and Floyd Jones. His Maxwell Street shows of the 1980s featured Little Nick on guitar and Dancin Perkins on bass. Maxwell Street was Chicago's Sunday morning. Dr. Joseph Lowery referred to the phrase If youre black, get back! from Broonzys song Black, Brown and White Blues. http://www.broonzy.com, Blind Percy is the name of a musician who Jimmie Lee Robinson said helped teach him to play on Maxwell Street. Hooker is shown singing among the crowds on Maxwell Street in the first Blues Brothers movie in 1980,accompanied by Big Walter Horton, harmonica and Willie Big Eyes Smith, drums. (Chicago Tribune historical photo), King Levinsky, shownin 1931, worked in his family's fish market on Maxwell Street in 1931 even as he was achieving fame as a professional heavyweight boxer. 226. Floyd Jones plays Dark Road, c. 1952, on the And This is FreeCD. John Henry Barbee sings Against My Will, c. 1936, on the And This Is Free CD. It was ragtime. And then the blues began to spread. Coming up from the south, musicians were used to the natural sounds of stringed instruments, horns, drums, fiddles, banjos, washtubs and voices played on the street, in the church or on peoples front porches. View University Village Clinic Maxwell Street in a larger map. 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Privacy Statement University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign | Springfield Halsted/Taylor Parking Structure. Russian Hebrews was a census category. They were still allowed to use the street. BURTON J. BLEDSTEIN, PROJECT DIRECTOR. Photo printed on Oct. 1, 1993. An undated photo of the Maxwell Street market at the height of its popularity. (Carl Hugare, Chicago Tribune), A cold and windy Sunday, Feb. 3, 1974, on Maxwell Street didn't hamper bargain hunters. Zangwells production had created a sensation in England and America. Later he created his own folk art items such as Maxwell Street crosses and, around 2000, built a wooden Juketown Bandstand at the northeast corner of Maxwell and Halsted, to protest the demolition of 2001. Street scene on Maxwell Street near Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois, October 9, 1955. The four-block Maxwell Street, shown here in April 1965, attracted up to 10,000 customers on a Sunday afternoon and was described by a writer as being as "dazzling as a merry-go-round." He was better known in Europe than in the U.S. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/arts/music/jimmy-dawkins-fast-fingered-blues-guitarist-dies-at-76.html?_r=0, Jimmy Reed, born in Dunleith, MS, is remembered for his simple, bouncy songs, his sweet, raggedy voice and squealing harmonica. http://blues.about.com/od/bluesbooks/gr/Lincoln-Beauchamp-BluesSpeak.htm. Hours of operation. I run 3-5 miles three times a week and play basketball. He also recorded for Random Records, JOB, and Parrot. Nevertheless, unlike his treatment of theIrish, Mexicans, and Native Americans at whom he poked fun without mercy, he joked relativelylittle about Jews. Vera Green, left, and Maria Gutierez, right, ride floats as queens in a parade honoring the 100th anniversary of the Maxwell and Halsted Street business districts on Nov. 25, 1955. This is his only livelihood and he may be seen any Thursday at the Ghetto market.". Onions are served on every sandwich, so if we changed the onion or the cook of the onions, I am certain our customers would notice. He gave me that gift. The best sound, he said in his autobiography, got the best crowd. Honey continued to play, tour and share his life stories, most recently on the Earwig label with Michael Frank, til his death at age 96. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7UV0JKEfVQ, Homesick (as most of his colleagues and fans called him) was born in Somerville, Tennessee, some 25 miles east of Memphis. First established in 1939 on the northwest corner of Maxwell and Halsted Streets in the epicenter of Chicago's historic Maxwell Street Market, the stand's Yugoslavian-born founder Jimmy . Initially a charity student, he saved up money and went into business as a grain broker. He worked to expand the complexities of the Jewish character beyond an earlier melting pot for Americanization and assimilation dramatized by Israel Zangwell in Children of the Ghetto (1892). Mr. H was raised in the Pilsen neighborhood next door to Maxwell Street , where he began to listen and play with the musicians in the 1960s. Three, a direct correlation between the numerical frequency of the appearance of a cartoon subject in print media and its importance in the immediate lives of the viewing audience. Maxwell Street is an east-west street in Chicago, Illinois, that intersects with Halsted Street just south of Roosevelt Road.It runs at 1330 South in the numbering system running from 500 West to 1126 West. Williams,James Brown, Dennis Edwards, Pervis Spann, Walt Willey, and Charlie Love. A cold and windy Sunday, Feb. 3, 1974, on Maxwell Street didn't hamper bargain hunters. Also see his live performance of this song on the Street in Mike Sheas film, And This Is Free. It did not work out. The letter board menus (often featuring a soft drink sponsor) make natives feel they are in a safe space, a place where they can find an affordable and quality meal. This is probably the best of them and includes their homage to Chess, 2120 South Michigan Avenue.. Still the definitive book on the development of Chicago Blues up through the 1960s. In dollar terms, it becamethe third largest grossing business district in Chicago. Beginning Friday at 11:30 a.m. and continuing until 5 p.m., the following streets will be closed to vehicular traffic: Roosevelt Road between Morgan and Jefferson streets. (George Thompson, Chicago Tribune), Maxwell Street watermelon man, Bob Webb, sets up his watermelon stand at Maxwell and Halsted streets on Aug. 10, 1987. Harp blowers ever since have kept his wonderful licks alive. No single piece or genre of documentation is definitive, or credible at mere face value. bjb. He taught himself harmonica hearing his upstairs Chicago neighbor, Little Walter Jacobs, practicing. Taylor toured Europe and Japan, recording for VeeJay, Testament, Advent, Big Bear, and L&R Records. An East Pilsen apartment, where you'll find a unique open floor plan throughout. The ridiculed target was instantly recognized and the satirical message immediately understood abetted by brief captions. Born in Chicago right after his parents arrived from Hollandale, MS, Vince grew up in Lawndale in the neighborhood of California and Polk. http://blues.about.com/od/artistprofile1/p/LittleWalter.htm, Born in 1920 in West Memphis, AR, Willie Anderson learned blues harmonica by hearing Sonny Boy Williamson I, and following guitarists Robert Nighthawk and Robert Jr. Lockwood. Chicago Blues Today (Vanguard 3 disc CD set)The original set of 3 LPs was recorded and released in 1965. Dorsey co-founded the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses in 1933, and teamed musically with the powerfully inspired Chicago South Side singer Mahalia Jackson six years later to popularize the gospel form.https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/thomas_dorsey.html. **Evening parking allows access between the hours of 3pm-8am Monday through Friday and 24 hours on Saturday and Sunday. He died of a heart attack on a visit back home in Clarksdale, MS. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/big-john-mn0000063942Big John Wrencher plays Maxwell Street Alley Blues, c. 1968, on the And This Is Free CD. As ever in the human documentary, the historical devil embedded in the riches of archival sources dwells in the local detail. It pleased him when his daughter Clara married a Jewish musician. When we raise prices we try to keep them at a minimum so that we maintain our street food status and dont price ourselves out of the market. Moreover his cousins living conditions distressed him : I finally reached my cousins home on Forsythe Street, and its wretched and neglected appearance almost made me sick. A Talmudic student and one of the leaders of a synagogue, Itze knew nothing about business or earning a livelihood, but spent his time in study. His wife, a very clever businesswoman, was the breadwinner. She peddled dry goods, selling on the installment plan, and was away all day. My cousin, therefore, was the housekeeper, and a poor one at that. They had a girl and two boys, and they all lived in a small flat on the third floor, consisting of three rooms, besides the kitchen., Horwich soon learned that even the German Jews who immigrated to the U.S. long before the Russian and Polish Jews were not welcoming to the more recent arrivals. Hilda was a good student at the Jewish Training School, but typically Jewish family resources were reserved for the education ofmale sons and brothers. A photo by Ray Flerlage shows him outdoors playing guitar, avoiding trouble with the musicians union which had registered him as a harmonica player. Singer/bassist Queen Sylvia, and her guitarist husband John were staples on Chicagos blues scene in the 70s . The Kid was captured in a favorite 1988 photo by Marc PoKempner featured in Columbia Universitys Museum of Modern Photography: http://www.mocp.org/detail.php?t=objects&type=browse&f=maker&s=Pokempner,+Marc&record=8Review by critic David Whiteis: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/kid-dynamite/Content?oid=880214, Born in Stringtown, Mississippi, playing guitar and singing the blues from an early age, L.V. First city streets surveyed for nationality and wage (color-coded) mapping by Settlement house social workers. Seen one Jew seen them all! Rear structures were added to many buildings to accommodate expanding businesses. Shortly after that, Jim was running the stand and bought it from his Aunt. (Chicago Tribune historical photo), Joe Kaplan sells dishes to Mrs. Freida Sawyer at Maxwell and Peoria Streets, circa April 1927. MSPS. Chicago Maxwell street POLISH. For more than 100 years, Maxwell Street has preserved a bit of Old World culture within sight of the Loop's skyscrapers. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he showed up to play at the Delta Fish Market. Literally pullers cajoled, shoved, and pushed bargain hunters into the department stores. Sunnyland didnt have many big hits himself, but he brought musicians to record on area labels including his own Airway Records http://www.allmusic.com/artist/sunnyland-slim-mn0000490769/biography and mentored many artists including Maxwell Streetharmonica player Snooky Pryor and singer Big Time Sarah. In the benediction at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama, the civil rights leader Rev. Sonny Boy Williamson, Sugar Mama, The Essential Recordings of Sonny Boy Williamson (CD Indigo)A collection of tracks recorded between 1937 and 1942 in Chicago and nearby Aurora, Illinois. People still identify the Old Maxwell Street Market with the sweet smell of onions that emanated from Jim's stand. (Robert MacKay, Chicago Tribune), Maxwell Street had its share of characters, including Margo, who was sellingpinwheels at the corner of Maxwell and Halsted streets in August 1963. - Neighborhoods - Maxwell Street (GCRAD5) was created by Panther in the Den and Nervous Nick on 11/12/2005. Please note this is a cashless location (credit, debit, gift cards, dragon dollars or flames fare only) . Pryor served in World War II in the Pacific and then, stationed at Ft. Sheridan, IL , came to Chicago on weekend passes and sat in with Sonny Boy I and Homesick James Williamson at the Purple Cat on Madison St. Moving permanently to Chicago in 1945, he began playing on Maxwell Street. He was happy to have left the south where people made only 75 cents a day picking cotton. He didnt like the city and preferred playing in the South, so he made very few recordings. They were introduced to it by these tours and things like the television broadcast that occurred in conjunction with them. In the 1980s, he returned to tour Europe and record with Blind Pig records. Two, laughter, mirth, and humiliation, exposing the ludicrousness of vanity and self-righteous propaganda of an adversary were more effective weapons than historical physical confrontation, banishment, dungeons, even jails. Steve Wisners short-lived Mr. Blues label recorded Charles in 1975, later re-issued by P-Vine. Neighborhood. Includes a 47-page booklet, with Sam Charters original liner notes. Born in Tennessee, John Lee Granderson moved to Chicago in 1928 and played with John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson I, among others. Some of these tracks feature the original Sonny Boy Williamson on harp, creating a sound many believe was a preview of what Muddy Waters and Little Walter would do later.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000JI3/charlekcowder. During the 1960s he worked as sideman and leader, playing on many anthologies in the style of early 20th century Memphis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtMnDwIRbc8, Born Johnny Williams in Greenville, MS according to Komaras Blues Encyclopedia, Johnny played guitar as did his brother Lefty Dizz (Walter Williams). In 1984 he moved to Europe, then recorded CDs in 1994 for Blind Pig and in 2009 for Delmark. He remembered his mother as a loving despot who repeatedly and abusively punished her children with the confidence that God would forgive her. It speaks of the many cultures that have come to Chicago and made it home. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddie-taylor-mn0000176673/biography Eddie and his wife Vera, a singer recorded on Wolf Records, raised a brood of Chicago blues musicians: Eddie Jr., blues guitarist and singer; Tim, a drummer; Larry, blues and soul singer and drummer Demetria, blues vocalist; Brenda, hiphop vocalist.Heres Eddie singing Peach Tree Blues (original by Yank Rachell) on the Testament Modern Blues Masters album featuring Floyd Jones on bass, Big Walter Horton harmonica, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jV-SL4ggtY. The other was little Walters I Just Keep Loving Her with Othum Brown, backed by Walters harp on the other side, singing Ora Nelle Blues. The Abrams must have named the record company for Othums lady friend Ora Nelle. ! Understanding an historical event in this project is realized by experiencing aspects of the lives of those struggling to find meaning in a place.They often had to challenge generations of tradition and customary belief including habits of provincial prejudice.The powers of established orthodoxies within national, religious, ethnic, race and gender identities were prevalent, often overpowering. Maxwell St. in Chicago is where this style of Polish sausage was born more than 75 years ago. Reviewed July 9, 2018 via mobile . While record-breaking throngs were buying luxury gifts in Loop stores in December 1936, Maxwell Street merchants applied their usual tactics to shoppers in their district. Over the years, Maxwell Street, shown here circa1905, grew into a vast Sunday-morning flea market. Upon advice from a relative, he traveled immediately from New York to Chicago. Mobile Ordering during open hours is available now through the Starbucks app. Parking is available at the University Village Public Parking Garage (entrance on Maxwell Street). Adherence to tradition is important at Jims, which was long known for its 24-hour service. In 1948 he moved from Memphis to Chicago. In the early 00s, the L.V. King, Little Arthur Duncan migrated to Chicago with most of his family. The Maxwell Street market its principal thoroughfare was just south of Roosevelt Road on either side of Halsted Street was the predecessor of today's suburban flea markets. The Maxwell Street market -- its principal thoroughfare was just south of Roosevelt Road on either side of Halsted Street -- was the ancestor of today's suburban flea markets. The track Snooky and Moodys Boogie may have inspired Little Walters 1953 hit Juke. Jones made further recordings for the JOB label in the early 1950s, backing musicians such as Snooky Pryor and Johnny Shines. 111th and Austin 6. Eddie Cs shimmering West Side-styled guitar playing and introspective songwriting had their roots in Duncan Mississippi, where he left for the bright lights of Chicago at age ten, sneaking a peek at Muddy Waters and jamming with his idol when he was only 12. Electric guitar, bass and drums held down each small band, accompanied by piano, harmonica and sometimes a saxophone. Except for the Middle-Eastern stuff, most of their music was based on the style of blues pioneered on Maxwell Street. The Maxwell Street Market is a . Heres an article from Greece: http://blues.gr/profiles/blogs/an-interview-with-versatile-melvin-taylor-one-of-the-greatest, A highly talented guitarist Born in Chicago (the title of his famous song), Bloomfield joined a small but influential group of young white men, including Paul Butterfield and Charlie Musselwhite, who visited South and West Side clubs to learn from and play with Chicago bluesmen. Add onions; saut for 30 minutes, stirring frequently to avoid burning and covering when not mixing. (Walter Kale, Chicago Tribune), A cold and windy Sunday, Feb. 3, 1974, on Maxwell Street didn't hamper bargain hunters. McCarthy, who ran for president five times, was just one of the many politicians who visited Maxwell Street. But he spoke. Order Online Hours & Location. Learning from blood relatives and musical mentors, bluesmen and women have passed the music and stagecraft, since the early 19th century minstrel shows through the early 20th century revues featuring singers like Bessie Smith, to the present day. Stage for a U.S. literary renaissance of urban realism. Maxwell Street Express. Mentored by guitarist Pat Rushing, Melvin led his first band, the Transistors, in the 1970s. Some have been reproduced by Delmark Records. http://www.earlyblues.com/Blues%20Memories%20-%20Les%20Forgue.htm. In his autobiography I Am the Blues, Dixon wrote that he would tell Buddy, Man, put some show into the guitar. These faded edifices still stand along Halsted Street, the offspring of Maxwell Street merchants. http://blues.gr/profiles/blogs/veteran-drummer-twist-turner-talks-about-the-legends-and-the. Originally from Seattle, drummer/producer/ songwriter Twist Turner (Steve Patterson) played with West Coast bluesman Isaac Scott and joined the Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco blues scenes from 1975-2013. He was good at hustling gigs, and by the 1950s was forming bands, singing and playing with people like Earl Hooker. Soroka Rayfield, 70, grinds horseradish at the Maxwell Street market in 1938. He teamed up with his cousin Floyd Jones, and also Snooky Pryor and Blind Arvella Gray, and they played on Maxwell Street beginning in the 1940s. 10 (October 1909): 4-5. 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