Michael ‘Fuzzy’ deLisle is an unsung hero of the fertile 1970s Champaign-Urbana scene
He’s released just one single in his long career, but he’s played a staggering amount of great country rock and folk.
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Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place.
Historians, archaeologists, and treasure hunters tend to be obsessive people, but they don t expend all those hours of sweat and energy for just anything like anybody else, they ve got their specific interests, and you ve gotta dangle the right carrot to get them going. And the artist known formerly as Fuzzy checks at least three boxes on my list of requirements for a Secret History subject.
It has been 37 years. It is as cold as a “cold case” can get, but a small group still grips the memory of Kristina Hickey, who was 15 when she was killed in 1984.
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