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want to make you feel like you’re not wor-
thy. You’re minding your own business,
and they want to talk crazy to you. And it
was around my kid. We have to stop this
cycle of hate. I feel hopeful for the sake of
the little ones,” he said.
Hope for the future and reverence for
the past runs all through This Land, with
sistently used blues as the foundation for
his exploration into other genres, honoring
the root while exploring the branches.
He’s come full circle now and is part
owner of Antone’s, the iconic blues club
where he got his start, and he’s looking to
collaborate with a few of his current hip
hop and R&B inspirations – H.E.R.,
Run, St. Charles; The Prisillas — Potter’s Place, Naperville; The
Boy Band Night — Q Bar, Darien; Lava Rock — Q Bar, Glendale
Heights; Ten-96/MX4 — Ranger Studios, Franklin Park; Altered
Stage/She Rides Tigers/Kalmah — Reggie’s, Chicago; DJ Q/
Mark LoJo — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; Foals/Preoccupations
/Omni — Riviera Theater, Chicago; Vance Kelly & The
Backstreet Blues Band — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; Town
Criers/The Edwards/In The Pines/Dreamboats — Schubas,
Chicago; Cadillac Groove — Slapshots, Midlothian; Ohmme/
Bunny/Cold Beaches — Sleeping Village, Chicago; Urula/B.
Hayes — Smart Bar, Chicago; Rod Tuffcurls & The Bench Press
— Space, Evanston; Crude S.S. Riotus/This Wild Life/Sleep On
It/Taildragger — Subterranean, Chicago; Son Volt/Ian Noe —
Thalia Hall, Chicago; Triple Play — The Cottage, Crystal Lake;
Lateralus/Facelift — The Forge, Joliet; Deja Vu — The Gambler,
McHenry; Covergirls — The Piazza, Aurora; Lounge Puppets —
The Quarry, Lemont; Neko Case/Shannon Shaw — The Vic,
Chicago; Trevor Noah — United Center, Chicago; Bomber —
Uptown Lounge, Chicago; Raising Cane/Underwire — White
Tavern, Naperville; Return2Soul — Zachary’s, Palos Heights.
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the title tune based on the Woody Guthrie
anthem “This Land Is Your Land.” He con-
tinues his appreciation of R&B melodies
and hip hop beats and even mixes in a bit
of punk and reggae, tying it all up with a
soothing dose of country blues. He also
includes more social commentary, address-
ing the cycle of poverty on “Feed The
Babies.” Critics have declared that it’s a
new side of the multi-faceted musician, but
it’s been there all along, including the
social commentary, which has always been
an essential feature of blues. Clark has con-
Kendrick Lamar and J.Cole. “I think
there’s this idea of blues being older and
dated, but it evolves. You hear it in pop
lyrics all the time, and you have to
acknowledge it for what it is,” he said. “We
have to be loud about celebrating it, and
people will catch up to it. Blues is classic.
It’s the root, buried underneath a pile of
stuff.”
Gary Clark Jr. appears at Lollapalooza
2019, Chicago in August.
Swing Dance Party w/Shout Section Big Band — 210 Live,
Highwood; Chris Heath Early Risers/Pharez Whitted’s Late
Night Jam — Andy’s Jazz Club, Chicago; Whiskey Brothers —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Tunes With Tim — Beat Kitchen,
Chicago; Nellie Tiger Travis — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Rick
Saucedo/In The Stix — Blue Chip Casino Rocks Lounge, Michigan
City, IN; Ionnalee/Allie X — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Goin
South — Broken Oar, Port Barrington; Brian Allison — Bub City,
Rosemont; Will Tilson — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Rise
Against — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Kevin Eubanks Group/
Chicago Philharmonic Chamber Players — City Winery, Chicago;
Tommy Slab — Cuzin’s, Blue Island; Taylor Street — Cuzin’s Pub,
Midlothian; Tony Raney/JAKDD/Farhampton/The Homecoming
— Elbo Room, Chicago; Pretty Vicious/The Evictions — Empty
Bottle, Chicago; British Buddy Alumni Big Band w/Frieda Lee —
Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Chicago Jazz Composers Collective/
Uptown Poetry Slam/Soul Jazz Night w/Joel Paterson Trio &
Chris Foreman — Green Mill, Chicago; Melody Angel/Julia
Michaels/Nigel Mack/World Famous Gospel Brunch — House
of Blues, Chicago; Blues Jam w/Linsey Alexander — Kingston
Mines, Chicago; Onra/Devin Morrison — Lincoln Hall, Chicago;
Mary Flower — Old Town School, Chicago; The Chicago
Experience — Pheasant Run Mainstage, St. Charles; Echoes of
Pompeii — Reggie’s, Chicago; Mercy Me — Rosemont Theater,
Rosemont; Katie Von Schleicher/Half Gringa/Michael Albert —
Schubas, Chicago; Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues/Little
Miss Ann Band — Space, Evanston; Speaking With Ghosts/
Mayfield/Erabella/Still World — Subterranean, Chicago; Lucha
Libre — Thalia Hall, Chicago.
MONDAY 29
Eric Schneider Quartet/Bowmanville — Andy’s Jazz Club,
Chicago; Ready Set Dance DJ — Arlington Ale House, Arlington
Heights; Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen,
Chicago; Mike Wheeler Blues Band/Demetria Taylor — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; The Japanes House/Art School Girlfriend —
Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Jimmy Burns Hosts The Jam — Buddy
Guy’s Legends, Chicago; BiG SUit — City Winery, Chicago;
Monolord/Oozing Wound/Bruges — Empty Bottle, Chicago;
Patricia Barber Quartet — Green Mill, Chicago; Leon/Luke Pytel
Band/Joanna Connor — House of Blues, Chicago; Corey
Dennison/Mz. Peaches & The Cassanovas — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; The Imperial Sound/Nude Model — Martyrs’, Chicago;
Johnny Orlando/Hayden Summerall — Park West, Chicago; Open
Mic Comedy/Trivia Night — Reggie’s, Chicago; Sparkle
Carcass/The Family Gold/Nathan Graham — Schubas, Chicago.
TUESDAY 30
Keri Johnsrud/After Dark Von Freeman Tribute — Andy’s Jazz
Club, Chicago; Desperate Bastards — Arlington Ale House,
Arlington Heights; Trivia Nite w/Pat O’Malley — Ballydoyle,
Downers Grove; Sheryl Youngblood Blues Band — Blue Chicago,
Chicago; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City, Chicago; Live Band
Karaoke — Bub City, Rosemont; Luca Kiella — Buddy Guy’s
Legends, Chicago; PJ Morton w/The Amours/Peter Collins —
City Winery, Chicago; Lorna Shore/Enterprise Earth/
Bodysnatch/Within Destruction/Bad Blood — Cobra Lounge,
Chicago; Black Label Society/Sonic Brew/Conan — Concord,
Chicago; Lindee Cavalier/Haunted Like Human — Elbo Room,
Chicago; Open Mic — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Andrew Bird/The Fat
Babies — Green Mill, Chicago; Judy Roberts & Glen Fishman —
Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights; Comedy Cocktail — House of
Blues, Chicago; Giles Corey/Mike Wheeler/Peaches Staten —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; The Chicago Moth StorySLAM —
Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Sun Not Yellow/Pam Macey — Martyrs’,
Chicago; Vav Live — Park West, Chicago; Ufomammut/Kings
Destroy/Mr. Blotto/Lorna Shore/Enterprise Earth/
Bodysnatcher/Within Destruction — Reggie’s, Chicago; Pete
Galanis & Friends/Dave Herrero — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago;
Cisco Adler & guest — Schubas, Chicago; Dan Hubbard/Laura
Joy — Space, Evanston; Lurs/Locksmith/Cojo — Subterranean,
Chicago; Tom Odell/Lucie Silvas — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Dead-
Awake/Pvshovr/Vanish/Frequencies/American Slang — Wire,
Berwyn.
april
2019
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