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Media: July 2024 • 45th Anniversary of Disco Demolition: A Loop Insider’s Story

Media: July 2024 • 45th Anniversary of Disco Demolition: A Loop Insider’s Story

| June 30, 2024 | 0 Comments

  In the heyday of the late ’70s and early ’80s, Loop (WLUP, 97.9 FM) was owned by Congressman Cecil Heftel of Heftel Broadcasting. The president of Heftel Broadcasting was Tom Hoyt. A few photos of Hoyt appear in my book The Loop Files, as do a few stories told by him during his Heftel […]

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Sweet Home: Ronnie Baker Brooks

Sweet Home: Ronnie Baker Brooks

| January 13, 2017 | 0 Comments

Don’t call it a comeback. Although it’s been an entire decade since Ronnie Baker Brooks has released an album, his presence in the blues industry during that time  has been ubiquitous. “I produced Eddy Clearwater’s album, West Side Strut, I did a compilation with Johnny Castro, I co-produced my dad’s last album and I’ve been […]

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File: August 2013

File: August 2013

| July 31, 2013 | 0 Comments

Paul Natkin on display; a new music venue opens in Chicago

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