Illinois Entertainer May 2015 | Page 20

By Rosalind Cummings-Yeates A BLUES PRODUCTION I t all started because he grew tired of the bad news. Every time he looked up, a blues club was closing or cutting back on live shows. So Jacob Schulz, or Brother Jacob as he's more widely known, decided to do something about it. "I was talking with Deitra Farr about all of the blues clubs that had closed down and I said, 'you all don't want me to have to open up a club!' She said, yes we do." For ly attracted him. By the time he was 9, he was calling the legendary Pervis Spann, "The Bl Y\