Mark Guarino's new book 'Country & Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival' gives us 100 years of country, western and folk music in Chicago. rickkogan has more.
Mark Guarino, author of"Country & Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival," is flanked by musicians Jane Baxter Miller and Robbie Fulks on May 8, 2023, in Chicago.
These two are part of a huge and colorful gang that populates the book, which traces 100 years of country, western and folk music here.There have been other books that tackled parts of this compelling story. Here is the first complete tale and it is far more than a tour through your record collection.
At 53 years old, Guarino is too young to have witnessed firsthand much of what he writes about, but he hears and appreciates the echoes and has been able to find the threads that connect through the decades.He was not, for instance, alive when a young man, on his way to New York and a new life as Bob Dylan, showed up on the University of Chicago campus carrying a guitar, harmonica and his given name, Robert Zimmerman.
He chooses, wisely, to begin his book with these words from Win Stracke: “Chicago has no entrenched cultural tradition like New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Los Angeles. An idea can grow here without being required to conform … Oh, I’m not suggesting that we don’t have entrenched cultural organizations here, but by and large a great section of Chicagoans are able to view a new cultural movement without prejudice and with a healthy curiosity.
In the 30s and 40s, Chicago was a country music hotspot thanks to the WLS National Barn Dance radio program, which featured June Storey, from left, Gene Autry and Patsy Montana.
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