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Artist
Bob Stroger
12+ albums
bluesblues rock
about
Bob Stroger is a Chicago Blues guitarist. Stroger has worked with pretty much everyone on the Chicago blues scene over the past 40 years, remaining one of the most respected bass players. "I was born in South East Missouri in a small town Haiti, where I lived on a farm. I moved to Chicago in 1955. I lived in the back of a night club on the West Side, where Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters played. It looked like they were having a lot of fun and I made up my mind that what I wanted to do was play music. I got married at an early age and I used to watch my brother-in-law play music. His name was Johnny Ferguson and he and JB Hutto had a band they called the Twisters. They were working on 39'th and State Street in Chicago and I would carry them to work every night and watch them. Then at home I would try to teach myself to play. My cousin Ralph Ramey said that we should start a band and we did just that. We got my brother (John Stroger), who played the drums, to learn the songs we knew and in four months we were making some noise. We went to a club and played two songs and the man said we had a job. It was one of the better clubs, where musicians like Memphis Slim worked. The owner wanted us to wear uniforms but we had no money to buy them, so we got black tams and put a red circle in the top and called the band the Red Tops and that was the way it started. We got so good that they wanted the band to travel, but Ralph's wife did not wont him to travel. so my brother formed
top songs
albums
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In The House - Live At Lucerne Vol.1
That's My Name
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Bob Is Back
Bob Is Back In Town
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Keepin' It Together
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Bob Stroger and James Wheeler Live at Mr Jones
In The House
Bob Stroger And His Chicago Blues Legends
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Bob Stroger & Mr Jones Band Live in Buenos Aires 2010
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Bob Stroger Mr Jones Band Live in Buenos Aires 2010
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American Folk Blues Festival: 1980
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His Chicago Blues Legend