- Action Bronson
Chicago Psych Fest V kicks off tonight at the Hideout with Verma, Mako Sica, Energy Gown, Crown Larks, and the Humminbird—if you can’t make it out this evening, you have a couple more chances to see the annual psych celebration as it continues through Saturday. If psych isn’t your bag there are plenty of other shows worth checking out through the weekend.
“Henry Butler is probably the most technically dazzling pianist in blues and R&B today,” writes Dave Whiteis. “The New Orleans native’s first recordings, released in the mid-80s, featured collaborations with some of the era’s most prestigious and forward-looking jazz musicians. He didn’t begin carving out a niche in roots-wise, progressive blues and R&B till the early 90s, with Orleans Inspirationand Blues & More, Volume 1, where he showed off fresh and often audacious takes on ideas codified by Crescent City piano masters such as Jelly Roll Morton, Tuts Washington, Professor Longhair, and James Booker.”
