Fred Below helped invent the beat of electric Chicago blues

The Secret History of Chicago Music likes to throw a spotlight on music’s hardworking timekeepers. Drummers in general don’t get the love that singers and guitarists do, but I didn’t decide to cover Fred Below just to address that imbalance—his skills were so remarkable and diverse that he’d be worth writing about even if this […]
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