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SUMMARY:Author Talk - "In the Belly of the Blues" with Terry Abr
 ahamson
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DTSTAMP:20260409T081400Z
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LOCATION:1177 N. Main St, Crete, IL 60417, United States
ROOM: Large Meeting Room
DESCRIPTION:Terry captivates audiences from the start with vivid memories 
 of growing up amid the electric sounds of Chicago’s West Side—only lat
 er realizing that the British rock icons he idolized had drawn their music
  straight from the Mississippi-born blues legends playing nightly in his o
 wn backyard. A lifelong friendship with Muddy Waters opened doors to count
 less adventures: writing Grammy-winning songs together, jamming with Georg
 e Thorogood, witnessing the Rolling Stones’ impromptu set with Muddy, an
 d collaborating with greats like Johnny Winter, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker
 , Clarence Clemons, and even the Blues Brothers. Along the way, Terry reve
 als surprising tales—Led Zeppelin’s borrowed lyrics, Prince’s lifted
  tune, and a movie written for an unexpected cartel producer—all undersc
 oring his central message: the rock and roll we know was born from the Blu
 es, the music of resilience and reinvention. Afterward, Terry delights fan
 s with personalized song-lyric autographs created on the spot.Author Bio:A
  native of Chicago’s West Side and a Chicago Blues Hall of Fame inductee
 , Terry Abrahamson’s music has been recorded by six members of the Rock 
 & Roll Hall of Fame. His Blues photography has been shown worldwide, h
 is plays have been performed on stages across America, and his writing has
  been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in television and motion picture
 s, at Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History, on the stage
  of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, at Johnnie Cochran’s f
 uneral, and before the United States Supreme Court.A decades-long friendsh
 ip with Muddy Waters opened doors to countless adventures: writing Grammy-
 winning songs together, witnessing - backstage and onstage - the Rolling S
 tones’ impromptu 1978 set with Muddy; hanging and cruising with the Blue
 s Brothers in Chicago, collaborating with Johnny Winter, John Lee Hooker, 
 Clarence Clemons and Joan Jett, and his comic disaster with BB King that i
 nspired an award-winning film.Terry has also been a Blues producer, talent
  agent, DJ, panelist, and journalist. His photomemoir, In the Belly of the
  Blues, is in the permanent collection of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
 . His kids’ history of the Blues, The Blues Parade, anchored the Chicago
  Public Library’s 2020 African American History Month celebration.As an 
 educator, Terry, joined by globally-celebrated Bluesicians, brings to life
  the historic significance, resonance and transformative powers of the too
 ls of the Blues – whimsy, swagger and imagination – challenging the ki
 ds and families in his school, library and festival audiences to energize 
 their voices with those tools, to be heard by the world as those voices ar
 e meant to be heard. Invariably, these events bring kids rockin’ to thei
 r feet, and embraced by their history….and their legacy.Terry lives in t
 he Buena Park district of Chicago’s historic Uptown neighborhood.Please 
 check out his book website:https://www.inthebellyoftheblues.com/
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