Chicago Folk

Chicago Folk includes over 200 of Raeburn Flerlages's photographs of folk
musicians during the 1960s. No other book has presented a portrait of such a
vibrant urban folk milieu, featuring popular performers such as Bob Dylan,
Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, the Weavers, and so many others, but also a large
number of traditional musicians, old and new, such as the New Lost City
Ramblers, the Reverend Gary Davis, Booker White, Son House, Dock Boggs, the
Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, Mother Maybelle Carter,
and many other blues, bluegrass, old-time, Cajun, and gospel performers who
appeared in Chicago and at the University of Chicago Folk Festival. These
images capture the broad scope of folk musicians who were part and parcel of
the 1960s folk music revival in Chicago and throughout the country. Raeburn
Flerlage was well known as Chicago's foremost blues photographer. The concert
performances, studio sessions, interviews and club shows he shot through the
1960s captured some of America's greatest blues artists at the pinnacle of
their careers. While these images are now famous, the rest of his thousands of
images are virtually unknown, and Chicago Folk brings these photos to light.
Chicago Folk is a follow-up to Chicago Blues (ECW Press, 2000), the first
published collection of Flerlage's photographs.