AOL-Patch.com
September 7, 2010
Text and photos by Ted Regencia
SKOKIE, Ill — The New York Times once raved about him as “the sort of exuberant entertainer who can turn a concert into a party.”
Last Sunday, Eddy Clearwater lived up to the expectation once more, as he turned the small crowd at the Skokie Theatre into a boisterous rhythm and blues revelry.
The rare Skokie performance by the Chicago blues legend is part of an ongoing community effort to save the storied theater from possible bank takeover. Just two weeks from now his busy schedule will bring him to Dunkerque, France, and on to the Netherlands in November.
In between the soulful execution of an original, “Slow and Easy is My Style,” and the spicy “I Love You,” the Skokie-based artist declared, “[The theater] needs to be here and it needs to be alive.”
With his every distinct Chicago riff and his husky voice, the Mississippi native injected just the right kind of musical dose into his impassioned plea. Continue reading “Chicago legend sings the blues to save Skokie Theatre”
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