The dynamic guitarist helped shape the sound of Chicago's electric blues and, at Eddie Vedder's request, opened for Pearl Jam in 1994. By THR Staff Magic Slim, a dynamic guitarist who helped shape the ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Mayor Emanuel has issued statement mourning the loss of bluesman Magic Slim, who did it his way against some long odds. WBBM's John Cody has more. A cotton gin accident claimed a ...

"Part Time Love" "I Got a Crazy Woman" "Goin' Back to Mississippi" "Just in Case We're Wrong" Bob Thompson, "Wade in The Water" Magic Slim and his band The Teardrops make their first appearance on ...

Music like this gets harder to find by the day. Magic Slim & the Teardrops’ tag as “the last real Chicago blues band” may be a bit of an exaggeration — but not by much. And the label gathers more ...

Hundreds of dentists were in Chicago for a convention, and it couldn't have come at a better time. For trying to get words out of Magic Slim's mouth is an exercise not unlike pulling teeth. Perhaps he ...

Magic Slim, a dynamic guitarist who helped shape the sound of Chicago's electric blues, died Feb. 21 in a Philadelphia hospital. He was 75. By Lars Brandle Magic Slim, a dynamic guitarist who helped ...

Blues guitarist Magic Slim died yesterday in a Philadelphia hospital, The Associated Press reports. He was 75, and had been dealing with worsening health problems, his manager said. Slim, born Morris ...

Magic Slim, a younger contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf who helped shape the sound of Chicago’s electric blues, died Thursday. He was 75. He died shortly after midnight ...

A release of remastered albums on vinyl by the European jazz label Storyville provides a welcome chance to re-evaluate the blues and the black artists who introduced the musical form to Europe. The ...