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Topic: Two Openers for Chicago

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September 5th, 2005 06:40 PM

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BLUES BROTHERS INCOGNITO

Chicago SunTimes
September 5, 2005

BY JEFF JOHNSON Staff Reporter

Rolling Stones tours are known for helping to revive the careers of half-forgotten R&B stars of yesteryear. So it's with some irony that GLARE notes the identity of Saturday night's opening act at Soldier Field: the Blues Broth ... er, the Have Love Will Travel Revue, starring "The Legacy, Brother Elwood [Dan Aykroyd] and the Blood, Brother Z [Jim Belushi]."

Original Blues Brother Aykroyd and Blues Brother brother Jim released one CD under the Have Love Will Travel moniker: a 2003 self-titled album, subtitled "Big Men, Big Music." The disc consists of knockoffs of R&B favorites such as Willie Dixon's "300 Pounds of Joy," Tony Joe White's "Polk Salad Annie" and Roosevelt Sykes' "Driving Wheel," as well as a few originals in that same novelty vein.

Aykroyd and Belushi have appeared in Chicago once before as Have Love Will Travel, at the Vic Theatre in June 2003. Could it be the Blue Brothers still have some outstanding warrants in Illinois?

The choice of material and general high-quality instrumental support should remind concertgoers of the Blues Brothers, and even Aykroyd seems to make no distinction between the two acts.

"I've known the boys and Michael Cohl [the Stones' chief of staff] for some time now. They really are showing us a lot of love with this incredibly generous invitation. We don't take it lightly," Aykroyd said in a statement to the Sun-Times. "The Blues Brothers will do Chicago and the Stones proud with an opening set worthy of this induplicable night of music and fun."

It seems that when Belushi and Aykroyd appear as Have Love, they don either black leather and white tees or brightly colored suits, rarely the black suits and fedoras and Ray-Bans they wear as the Blues Brothers. Whatever the wardrobe, it seems to us a bit of a comedown for the Stones to use their showcase on these comedic ersatz soul men, when in the past they've kick-started the careers of tour mates such as Etta James and B.B. King.

In any case, Have Love Will Travel hits the Soldier Field stage at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Los Lonely Boys are also on the bill.

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