{"id":72341,"date":"2018-06-02T01:28:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T06:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72341"},"modified":"2018-06-22T14:49:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T19:49:05","slug":"legendary-chicago-blues-musician-eddy-the-chief-clearwater-dead-at-83-music-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72341","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Chicago Blues Musician Eddy \u201cThe Chief\u201d Clearwater DEAD at 83 \u2013 Music News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72341\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72341\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-72342 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/STEVE_EDITS_027-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/STEVE_EDITS_027-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/STEVE_EDITS_027.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world just got a little sadder with the news that the Grammy nominated Chicago blues legend Eddy \u201cThe Chief\u201d Clearwater died of heart failure at the age of 83, according to his record label.<\/p>\n<p>Clearwater, was born Edward Harrington in 1935 in Mississippi, and died in his hometown of Skokie, the label, Alligator Records, said in a statement.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChicago has lost one of our legendary blues musicians, innovators and ambassadors to the world,\u201d Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a statement. \u201cClearwater leaves behind a lifetime of songs that gave a voice to the soul of the city that he loved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report extends our condolences to the Clearwater Family in their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gJr9G3F4STQ?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;1&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] By Brad Berkwitt The world just got a little sadder with the news that the Grammy nominated Chicago blues legend Eddy \u201cThe Chief\u201d Clearwater died of heart failure at the age of 83, according to his record label. Clearwater, was born Edward Harrington in 1935 in Mississippi, and died in his hometown of Skokie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18189],"class_list":["post-72341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-legendary-chicago-blues-musician-eddy-the-chief-clearwater-dead-at-83-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72341"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}