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Barrelhouse Chuck

Clip: Season 2019 Episode 7 | 4m 45sVideo has Closed Captions

The Blues musician who was also the genre's biggest fan.

In 2016, the music world lost longtime Chicago Bluesman Barrelhouse Chuck to cancer. He was just 58. I had the pleasure of visiting Chuck a few months earlier. He was pretty weak, but managed to tell me his story and even sit down at the piano for awhile. Chuck was not only a great Chicago bluesman, he may also have been the genre's biggest fan.

02/15/2019

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