From the 1998 Chicago Blues Festival . . .

. . . comes the work of Chicago blues chronicler Niles Frantz. Niles enjoyed another up-close weekend with this year's performers and has brought his work here to The Blue Highway for all to see. Please browse and enjoy his five pages of first-rate photos. You can click the smaller image to see the full-color jpeg. The jpegs range from 17k to 49k in size.

Left: Steve Cropper, Joe Louis Walker, and
Scotty Moore at the Petrillo Band Shell
Right: Ruth Brown at the Petrillo Band Shell

Left: Johnnie Bassett at the Crossroads Stage
Right: Billy Boy Arnold and Jimmie Lee Robinson