…I don’t want to be the “only the lost bluesman are any good” guy, but I have to give respect where it’s due and this guy deserves a lot of praise. In a nutshell, the Maxwell Street Market in Chicago was known for it’s live street performers in the 60s - specifically as a hub for blues performers. Similar to how 52nd street was for jazz cats in New York, the blues scene in Chicago centered around Maxwell’s and the king of those mid 60s blues jams on the streets was Robert Nighthawk who pulled up a chair on a streetcorner and played some of the nastiest slide guitar licks Chicago has ever seen(even in a town that was home to Muddy Waters!).

Eli’s Place by Robert Nighthawk - This is an interesting video. I believe it comes from a documentary capturing the scene there in the mid 60s. The audio certainly comes from the same performance that was captured on Robert’s Live on Maxwell Street Album(a really excellent live blues album - one of the best in fact) and it appears as though the clips are mostly spliced together but at least the beginning of the performance seems to be filmed from the audio although it doesn’t quite sync up during the solo section. Anyway, technicalities aside this is a really interesting video that captures the raw blues just as you would have heard them on the sidewalk in Chicago.