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Living Blues magazine calls them one of the best blues bands in the land. The Chicago Tribune calls their blues fearless and full tilt. Co-led by Chicago blues vocalist and songwriter Oscar Wilson ...

Bands like Rush rarely sell out. In fact, many bands who sold out have opted for generic, flashy pop music that is excellent fodder for mainstream charts. Rush, however, did not do that. What they did ...

They might be best known by many for proving ... but still kept blues-rock at the absolute core of their music. The reductive ‘Beatles vs Stones’ argument will always persist amongst music ...

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Proving that even British bands could get in on the yacht rock act, the Climax Blues Band knocked off a pair of songs that fit well into the canon. There was the sleekly funky "Couldn't Get It Right" ...