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Get Down With Us. Try it, You’ll like it…

• November 7, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Arts & Culture, Events, Jive Culture, Live Music, Local Chicago Music, Music
Tags: Leroy Hutson, Local Chicago Soul, Ayana Contreras, gaucho, DJ Ayana, Morseland, lover's holiday


Natural Four: Soul, if only for a moment

• July 20, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Chicago Cultural History, Local Chicago Music, Music
Tags: Chicago Music, Chicago Soul, Curtom, Leroy Hutson, Local Chicago Music, Music, Natural Four, Richard Pruter


This Love’s For Real

• February 21, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Arts & Culture, Local Chicago Music, Music
Tags: Chicago, Chicago Soul, curtis mayfield, gangster lean, Hands of Time, inner city, Leroy Hutson, Local Chicago Soul, suicide doors


Love the Feeling (of good old Chicago Soul)

• February 17, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Local Chicago Music, Music, the Goodness
Tags: 1976, Chicago, Curtom, Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson, Local Chicago Soul, Music


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