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Chicago benefited more than any other city when it comes to music by virture that it was right up the Mississippi River from MS.Mississippi is the most underated state in the U.S. when it comes to our musical heritage.Bo Diddley,Muddy Waters,Jerry Butler were all born in MS ,but made Chicago their home.The richness of the Chicgo musical heritage is directly tied ti the misforturns of thousands of blacks that made their way from the Delta's oppression.Where would Chi-Town be without it?
Sam Cooke-MS born,Chicago raised.ALL TIME FAVORITE of just about ANY ARTIST.COUNTRY,R/B,Rock so many people influenced by him. http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXR5tuqLGOc
agreed. louisiana also had some influence on the chicago scene. esp. with buddy guy.
Uh.....are people basing list off just one genre of music; or the overall music scene? Anyways, outside of NYC and LA; The cities I know that have a pretty good music scene are Austin, Dallas, Denver, and Atlanta.
Denver? I moved to Minneapolis from Denver and MPLS. kicks 10 different kinds of crap out of Denver when it comes to local music. Both cities do very well when it comes to attracting national and indie bands (i.e. Red Rocks (Denver) and First Avenue and the 7th Street Entry (Minneapolis)).
IMO, Minneapolis also takes Austin and Dallas and is on par with Atlanta.
Denver? who's from Denver that makes it a great music scene?
There are a few bands out of Denver that have become popular, but unfortunately for Denver, a lot of bands have left for other cities. Its scene will catch on eventually, but as of right now, it's not that impressive.
the Flobots - possibly one of the most overrated bands of all time
the Fray - super cheesie
Devotchka - damn good band
I live in Chicago and I don't think it has a great music scene. I haven't experienced first-hand the scenes of many other cities, but what I've heard about other cities blows Chicago out of the water. I'd expect that smaller cities would have less music going on, but when balancing it out on a per-capita basis, I think Chicago would come out pretty weak.
Obviously it was influential in the past, but even the music genres that the city is famous for are basically gone from here.
The map below represents US musical centers and American music diversity. As you can see it lists NYC, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis, Austin, Nashville, and several other legitimate music scenes.
I live in Chicago and I don't think it has a great music scene. I haven't experienced first-hand the scenes of many other cities, but what I've heard about other cities blows Chicago out of the water. I'd expect that smaller cities would have less music going on, but when balancing it out on a per-capita basis, I think Chicago would come out pretty weak.
Obviously it was influential in the past, but even the music genres that the city is famous for are basically gone from here.
man i gotta agree with you. the music scene NOW is weak. At the same time people who want t make it big end up moving to la, nyc, atl ect.
That's why i'm always uploading some music from local/up&coming musicians(mostly hip hop)
Hmm well jazz and new orleans has a unique relationship...lots of people refer to NO as the birthplace of gospel but its slightly inaccurate...before it was termed jazz it was a style of music being employed all over the country not just NO
New Orleans is the "cradle of Jazz". Jazz, dixieland Jazz. I never really considered it a gospel city no more than any other city. It's not country either. I'm sure you could find a few country bands around there but more than anything else- Jazz.
The map below represents US musical centers and American music diversity. As you can see it lists NYC, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis, Austin, Nashville, and several other legitimate music scenes.
Cool map...I can't seem to locate R&B anywhere though.
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