More Celebration of Maxwell St. Blues
Steve B.
Contact: Frank Scott Jr. 773-264-4746
Frank 'Little Sonny' Scott Jr. presents More Celebration of Maxwell
St. Blues
Every Saturday, at noon to at least 3PM at
Uptown World Famous Maxwell St. Polish Sausage Restaurant
4429 N. Broadway, just North of Montrose.
This is free. Listen, clap your hands, or dance to the music of these
legendary Maxwell Street musicians:
February 9: Bobby 'Top Hat' Davis, Mr. H, and Frank 'Little Sonny'
Scott Jr.
February 16: To be announced.
February 23: Motivation Blues Band with Frank 'Little Sonny' Scott Jr.
March 2: Motivation Blues Band with Frank 'Little Sonny' Scott Jr.
Says Mr. Scott, "All musicians are invited to jam with these legendary
Maxwell Street Blues musicians and are urged to bring drum sticks,
axe, or whatever you got to play with. We are trying to spread the
sound and spirit of Maxwell St. everywhere. The light got to kept
burning and the onions be cooking."
Also see an exhibition there of Frank Scott Jr.'s Maxwell Street Folk
Art Posters.
Frank Little Sonny Scott Jr. is from Texas and came to live on Maxwell
Street in 1950. He played on the street there with Freddy King and was
the first to introduc Freddy King to playing blues in public. Later
in the 1950s he was in a band with Freddy King and Jimmie Lee
Robinson, called the Every Hour Blues Boys. He is a drummer,
guitarist, singer, songwriter and inventor of the Percussive Blues
House Keys, the instrument he now primarily plays. He built the now
demolished Juketown Community Bandstand on Maxwell Street.
To learn more about Maxwell St. visit
www.openair.org/maxwell/preserve.html
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