Maxwell Street Blues

Chicago's legendary Maxwell Street was home to an open-air market that thrived for decades. It was there that the Chicago blues was born as African American street musicians, who had fled the rural South for the city, played regularly on the empty lots and broken sidewalks. MAXWELL STREET BLUES captures the tail end of the last great era of blues music on Maxwell Street.Chicago's legendary Maxwell Street was home to an open-air market that thrived for decades. It was there that the Chicago blues was born as African American street musicians, who had fled the rural South for the city, played r... Read more