When I'm not on the road, I'll get up and go down there (Maxwell Street) on Sunday morning. They've got everything there. ... And they've got several Blues bands over there. These are local bands, and some of them just get together and play every Sunday down there. I'm talking about good musicians!
Koko Taylor, blues musician, quoted in Going to Chicago, 1990
Money isn't the point. This is fun. This is the real blues. I sure hope we're not the last.
David Lindsey, blues musician whose band also regularly plays Maxwell Street, quoted from a Chicago Tribune article, April 13, 1994
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