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Ronnie Baker Brooks: Calls In for Midwest Beat!

By Tom Lounges
Published October 25, 2022 at 5:07 PM CDT

"Midwest BEAT with Tom Lounges" welcomes Chicago blues guitar great Ronnie Baker Brooks.

A legacy artist, as the eldest son of blues guitar icon Lonnie Brooks, blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Ronnie Baker Brooks has carved out an incredible career and legacy of his own since going solo in 1998. After years of playing in his father's band alongside such mega-guitar talents as Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton and B.B. King, to name but a few. Ronnie in an important part of the new wave of Chicago Blues and will impress.

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Tom Lounges has been a radio personality and music journalist since 1979. For the last 43 years, Tom has been reporting on entertainment as a weekly music columnist and feature writer for The Times newspaper.
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