UPTOWN — Bluesman Jake La Botz is scheduled to perform at the Tattoo Factory on Sunday on the Chicago leg of his Tattoo Across America Tour.
Since 2006, he's performed in tattoo shops across the country as part of the tour, which has 21 stops this year across the Midwest, East Coast and south between August and October.
The singer-songwriter from Chicago will sing the blues at the Tattoo Factory, 4441 N. Broadway, from 5-8 p.m. on Sunday. He happens to be the son of labor activist Dan La Botz, who in 2010 ran unsuccessfully for a U.S. Senate seat as a socialist candidate.
"After dropping out of school at 15," according to the bio on his website, "Jake La Botz hit the road, frequenting punk rock shows, hobo camps and libraries. He found employment as a roofer, boilermaker, graphite factory worker and obituary writer."
His bio says the nomadic musician learned the guitar and how to play the blues somewhere along the way.
"He played on the streets and in the juke joints of New Orleans, Chicago and the Mississippi Delta, finding kinship with some of the last of the pre-war era bluesmen: David 'Honeyboy' Edwards, 'Homesick' James, and 'Maxwell Street' Jimmy Davis," according to the bio.
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