CHICAGO (WLS) — “Blue Heaven” is a rousing tribute to the music that calls Chicago home, and the legends who made it an American art form.

Lyle Miller plays Howlin’ Wolf, and Dwight Neal, Muddy Waters.

They tell all about the exhilarating celebration of the blues at the Black Ensemble Theater.

“When the lights come on and my foot hit the stage, it’s on, I’m Howlin’ Wolf, ain’t no more Lyle there, I whip out my harmonica and get to singing and dancing,” Miller said.

He had this magnificent voice that didn’t feel suited for singing, but he was such a great vocalist that he was able to wield it like a weapon almost.

“Muddy Waters; he’s a representative of the great migration, and he did everything possible to leave that behind and become a cool cat with his slick hair and his nice suits and said “I created the Chicago Blues. This is my music,” Neal said.

Miller explained how the blues legends would “would sit up and just get a guitar, maybe with two or three strings on it and just start picking and just expressing themselves.”

“It wasn’t even necessarily singing they just be preaching almost,” Miller said.

Chicago is considered the home of the blues, when asked if added extra pressure on Neal, he said: “It’s the beginning of American Music, basically it comes out of slavery, it’s just the way they express themselves, it comes out of gospel.”

Miller said he picked up the harmonica about two months before and just started playing it , just like Howlin’ Wolf.

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