Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Remembering Gene Barge
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Remembering Gene Barge
Saxophonist Gene “Daddy G” Barge, who toured with The Rolling Stones and Bo Diddley, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in Bronzeville. He was 98. Barge moved to Chicago in the 1960s to become a staff musician and producer with Chess Records. He also produced Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. Bob Sirott shares his memories of “Daddy G” and plays back part of an interview they conducted at Chess Records.
https://serve.castfire.com/audio/7258990/Remembering_Gene_Barge_020425_2025-02-04-160930.64kmono.mp3
CLICK HERE to listen (and watch) the interview with Barge.
Gene Barge, renowned sax man and producer known as ‘Daddy G,’ dies at 98
Recent Posts
Bob Sirott
Associated Bank Market Outlook: 2/26/25
.cls-7{fill:#fff;fill-rule:evenodd}
Check out the Beachwater Bagels pop-up in Logan Square
.cls-7{fill:#fff;fill-rule:evenodd}
How can digital literacy enhance social media experience?
.cls-7{fill:#fff;fill-rule:evenodd}
Roberta Flack dies at 88
.cls-7{fill:#fff;fill-rule:evenodd}
Why aren’t consumers spending as much?
.cls-7{fill:#fff;fill-rule:evenodd}
Click for more
View all episodes
By wgnradio.com
4.1
4747 ratings
Saxophonist Gene “Daddy G” Barge, who toured with The Rolling Stones and Bo Diddley, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in Bronzeville. He was 98. Barge moved to Chicago in the 1960s to become a staff musician and producer with Chess Records. He also produced Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. Bob Sirott shares his memories of “Daddy G” and plays back part of an interview they conducted at Chess Records.
https://serve.castfire.com/audio/7258990/Remembering_Gene_Barge_020425_2025-02-04-160930.64kmono.mp3
CLICK HERE to listen (and watch) the interview with Barge.
Gene Barge, renowned sax man and producer known as ‘Daddy G,’ dies at 98
Recent Posts
Bob Sirott
Associated Bank Market Outlook: 2/26/25
.cls-7{fill:#fff;fill-rule:evenodd}
Check out the Beachwater Bagels pop-up in Logan Square
.cls-7{fill:#fff;fill-rule:evenodd}
How can digital literacy enhance social media experience?
.cls-7{fill:#fff;fill-rule:evenodd}
Roberta Flack dies at 88
.cls-7{fill:#fff;fill-rule:evenodd}
Why aren’t consumers spending as much?
.cls-7{fill:#fff;fill-rule:evenodd}
Click for more
More shows like Bob Sirott
View all
This American Life
91,297 Listeners
Fresh Air
38,430 Listeners
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
38,950 Listeners
Hamp and O'B
108 Listeners
Dane Neal
1 Listeners
Chicago Blackhawks
44 Listeners
HouseSmarts Radio with Lou Manfredini
16 Listeners
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
3,021 Listeners
The Chicago Way
1,159 Listeners
Blackhawks 720
36 Listeners
The Mincing Rascals
433 Listeners
uh-PARENT-ly
51 Listeners
Noon Business Lunch
10 Listeners
City Club of Chicago
4 Listeners
Karen Conti
11 Listeners
Hush Loudly
22 Listeners
Literally! With Rob Lowe
12,646 Listeners
SmartLess
58,365 Listeners
Live From My Office
176 Listeners
John Landecker
8 Listeners
This Week in Wealth
1 Listeners
The View: Behind the Table
2,914 Listeners
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
2,246 Listeners
The Nick D Podcast on Radio Misfits
370 Listeners
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
10,883 Listeners
Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers
2,906 Listeners
MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler
3,697 Listeners
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
3,555 Listeners
On the Map
0 Listeners
Your Money Matters with Jon Hansen
5 Listeners
The WGN Radio Football Podcast
10 Listeners
The Althimer Show
0 Listeners
on your radar
0 Listeners
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
12,559 Listeners