Chicago Blues Show At The Michigan Union

Chicago Blues Show

At the Michigan Union

January 24 will be remembered by many as the day the Legendary Weed Contest of 1975 reached culmination. The event was further climaxed later that evening when the Friends of the SUN presented their second dance party at the Michigan Union Ballroom, with a Chicago Blues show hot enough to warm up the cold winter night.

The featured band was Willie William's and his Stars of Stars Revue, bringing the blues sound which helped make the Windy City famous right here to the listening glee of hundreds who carne to dance, as well as those tuned-in to the live broadcast on campus WCBN-FM.

The Stars of Stars included some of Chicago's finest. Sunnyland Slim Laundrew belted at his piano amidst the guitar work of Eddie C. Campbell, with brother Odell on bottom-line bass and Willie himself on drums. (Willie is a veteran of Chester Burnett - Howlin' Wolf's aggregation of many years.) Throughout the evening the great Lucille Spann demonstrated her resounding vocal abilities while she bumped and ground her words against the gutsy backup of the band, to fill the ballroom with a rich musical experience not too available around Ann Arbor anymore. Speaking of home, guitarist John Nicholas sat in on quite a few numbers last Friday night as well. It was music straight from the streets of the ghetto, sweaty and funky.