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Get your tickets to see Chris Cain in Evanston, IL. Happening on Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at SPACE. Doors open at 8:00 PM.

Chris Cain, the great B.B. King declared years ago, now that boy can play the guitar. Today, blues musician, songwriter and vocalist Chris Cain is playing guitar better than he ever has. Ive stopped overthinking, he says, and now just play and sing what I feel. With more than three decades of touring and fifteen previous albums under his belt, Cain, once known as one of the greatest guitarists youve never heard, is now celebrated by fans and fellow musicians alike as being among the blues most talented and exciting players. His original songs overflow with surprising hooks and feature razor-sharp lyrics that are moving and humorously insightful. With his powerful, soul mans voice and his inventive guitar workinspired by Grant Green and Wes Montgomery as much as by B.B. King and Albert KingCains talents are unparalleled in the blues world. Cains new album (and second for Alligator), Good Intentions Gone Bad, is another giant leap forward for the man Living Blues says is currently turning out the best work of his career. Chris Cain is one of the most brilliant and vital figures making music of any kind…Hes near legendary on the blues scene…an extraordinarily talented, consummate musician delivering passionate, heartfelt vocals, potent, superb playing and marvelous songs. BLUES MUSIC MAGAZINE

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