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Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues

A son of blues comes home

Filed by Greg Trotter on May 27, 2008 08:26 AM

When Sumito Ariyoshi, known as Ariyo, arrived in Chicago in the summer of 1983, he came for several reasons that were actually just one reason: He wanted to eat, sleep, breathe and live the blues.

He wanted to play piano with the real bluesmen.

As Ariyo tells it, he showed up one night at the B.L.U.E.S. on Halsted, a North Side club. There he found a couple of real bluesmen in the flesh, Kansas City Red and Eddie C. Campbell, tuning up for their weekly gig.

Ariyo, then 26 years old and struggling to learn English, walked up to Kansas City Red.

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Location: Calumet Heights

Tags: Sumito Ariyoshi, blues, piano, Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues, James Wheeler Blues,

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