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Published: July 18, 2008
Chicago sings blues as genre gets tired
By The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Blues guitar virtuosos and honey-voiced singers filled the Chicago streets with music during the 1950s. Muddy Waters ' guitar seeped from corner juke joints. Willie Dixon strummed bass guitar beats, echoing the city's blues sound.

Now more than a half century later, a music that was born in the rural South and raised in the urban North, has grown old and tired. Its fan base is aging, key blues haunts h...

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