#sweethomechicago

[mrandytrejo]

Sweet Home Chicago 🏙️ ❤️

[jenniferwilliamsbroker]

Heading into the city that I know and love ❤️ #jenniferwilliams #jensellsluxe #realtorsofinstagram #realtorlife #cbrealty #cbsells #chicago #sweethomechicago #homesnappro #googlebusiness #provethemwrong https://www.instagram.com/p/CQb_93jhWPT/?utm_medium=tumblr

[thievingmagpiesband]

"Sweet Home Chicago" is a blues standard first recorded by Robert Johnson in 1936. Although he is often credited as the songwriter, several songs have been identified as precedents.[1] The song has become a popular anthem for the city of Chicago despite ambiguity in Johnson's original lyrics. Numerous artists have interpreted the song in a variety of styles. On November 23, 1936, in Room 414 of the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, Robert Johnson recorded "Sweet Home Chicago".[12] He changed the character of the song to one of aspirational migration, replacing "back to Kokomo" with "to Chicago", and replacing "that eleven light city" with another migrational goal "that land of California".But I'm cryin' hey baby, Honey don't you want to go Back to the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago[13]Johnson sang this as the first verse and used it as the refrain. Otherwise, his verses retained the structure of Arnold's recording, with similar counting verses. Johnson succeeded in evoking an exotic modern place, far from the South, which is an amalgam of famous migration goals for African Americans leaving the South. To later singers this contradictory location held more appeal than obscure Kokomo. Tommy McClennan's "Baby Don't You Want To Go" (1939)[14] and Walter Davis's "Don't You Want To Go" (1941)[15] were both based on Johnson's chorus. Later singers used Johnson's chorus and dropped the arithmetical verses.Johnson uses a driving guitar rhythm and a high, near-falsetto vocal for the song. His guitar accompaniment does not use Kokomo Arnold's bottleneck guitar style. Instead, he adapted the boogie piano accompaniments of Roosevelt Sykes to "Honey Dripper" and by Walter Roland to "Red Cross" to guitar.[2] Leroy Carr's "Baby Don't You Love Me No More" (with Leroy Carr on piano and Scrapper Blackwell on guitar) shares the rhythmic approach and the feel of Johnson's initial two verses.[16]

[agirlandherhund]

I celebrated my Chicago-versary today by listening to 93WXRT (I love Lin Brehmer + Terri Hemmert) + we ordered Chicago's pizza for dinner (I do prefer thin crust). I'm so happy to actually have been in town for this special day. We did have a 'Relocation Consultant' come to our apartment today to make some estimates on how much it's going to cost for us to move a lot of our belongings from Chicago to Los Angeles... yup, it's a bittersweet day as this will be my last Chicago-versary spent in Chicago. Tomorrow we begin our search for a new place in LA as our lease in Chicago is up October 1. More of those details to come but for today: I was here in the city I've spent nearly half of my life in. The city I love so very dearly. My sweet home Chicago.

[thisisawkwardnyc]

You ready for this, Chicago? . . #bestiegram #bestie #bff #backhome #sweethomechicago #chicago #midwestisbest #travel #nocoast (at Chicago, Illinois)

[rubencantumedia]

My kind of town #sweethomechicago #rubenwashere #wackerdrive #madisonave #onlocation #civicoperahouse #a1array #photoactivation #jamesbeardfoundationawards #jbfa #superaok #americanair #flagshipfirstdining #membersonly #chicago @hesherhank #somuchparty #lyricoperaofchicago (at Lyric Opera of Chicago)

[leonboy07]

[snowhawk1976]

#sweethomechicago (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfcsgsrsxXE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=