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Chess Records

Chicago Poetry Tour Podcast
Chicago Poetry Tour Podcast
Episode • May 4, 2010 • 7m

The Great Migration gave birth to a new brand of blues in Chicago, and Chess Records helped make it famous. Sterling Plumpp and Tyehimba Jess read their bluesy poetry.

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