Flowers For Chicago Blues: A Grave Tour

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This is a grave tour honoring twenty-one of the greatest Chicago Blues artists of all time. You will travel through eleven cemeteries and most of the cemeteries are located southwest of Chicago. Each set of carnations and rose flowers placed upon the graves are color coordinated. My goal with this website is to show you that these artists shaped and molded American Popular Music as we know it today. They are all buried within a very close distance of each other in the Chicagoland area. The Bluesmen I call the big four: Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Big Bill Broonzy, and Howlin’ Wolf gave birth to Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Buddy Guy, Keith Richards & Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jack White, John Mayer, and everyone else imaginable. The Chicago Blues artists in this book are the source; they are the original Rock N’ Rollers and Rappers. Without them, Rock N’ Roll and Rap Music wouldn’t exist. Blues remains hidden within countless forms of music and is the mud underneath the earth that makes all forms of music sprout and grow. Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Post Malone, and any current artist at the top of the charts wouldn’t exist if it were not for these legendary Chicago Blues artists. We are all in debt and service to them.
- Brant Buckley