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“The Leland Sessions,” a collection of blues staples recorded in downtown Aurora’s Leland Hotel in the 1930s, brought together the Midwest’s finest, including Robert Lee McCoy, Walter Davis, John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson and countless others. Nearly 80 years after “The Leland Sessions” took place, Cornmeal and Magic Box guitarist Scott Tipping decided to re-record the songs these icons created in Aurora with the area’s top blues musicians… and Leland was born, and reborn. It’s going to be something really special when these blues die-hards give these recordings new life, live on a stage just down the street from the very place they originated.

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