Today, the sound of Chicago blues is associated with searing electric guitars and harmonicas, yet Chicago was a blues mecca long before anyone ever thought of plugging into an amplifier. Singer/guitarist Walter Vinson of the legendary Mississippi Sheiks, singer/pianist Little Brother Montgomery, and singer Mama Yancey (widow of the great blues and boogie pianist Jimmy Yancey) were veterans of the pre-electric Chicago scene and were in magnificent form when Riverside captured their plaintive a… MORE