The Cal-Sag Graveyard Blues Tour stops at Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, visiting graves of Blues musicians.
"Harmonica Neil" Florek performs a song by blues musician Jimmy Rogers by his grave site during the 2019 Cal-Sag Graveyard Blues Tour organized by the Friends of the Cal-Sag Trail. This year's tour is Sept. 9.
“The irony is most people in the Chicago Southland still don’t realize the treasures that are there and ready for a graveyard visit. But the Rolling Stones do.” The three historically African American cemeteries were established at the height of the Jim Crow era, according to information compiled by Linda Swisher, president of thein Hazel Crest. Rampant discrimination in Chicago, even as the city’s Black population swelled amid the Great Migration, wasn’t restrained to the living.
, a blues historian and performer whose non-stage name is Neil Florek, is on hand every year to add context, recounting tales from musicians’ histories and offering graveside performances of their songs.“Hound Dog Taylor literally shot his bandmate Brewer Phillips and might have been tried and convicted if he had not passed away before the legal proceedings could conclude,” he said.
“At it’s core, it’s about raising these artists back up in peoples’ imagination and tying this place to the larger story of Chicago’s place in music history, particularly with the blues,” he said. Standing by Waters’ modest gravestone, Florek said, helps one “understand that blues people were real, historically situated individuals whose artistic achievements and world influence were not easily won.”
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