Gotta Go Gotta Flow: Life, Love, and Lust on Chicago's South Side from the Seventies

Michael Abramson takes out his small Leica camera at Pepper s Hideout on Chicago s South Side. 1974. Cool music. Cool scene.
Over the next three years, Abramson takes thousands of vivid photographs of smoke-filled Pepper s, Perv s House, the Patio Lounge, High Chaparral, and other black nightclu [...]
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Michael Abramson takes out his small Leica camera at Pepper s Hideout on Chicago s South Side. 1974. Cool music. Cool scene.
Over the next three years, Abramson takes thousands of vivid photographs of smoke-filled Pepper s, Perv s House, the Patio Lounge, High Chaparral, and other black nightclubs. Not so much the clubs, but the night people who fill the crowded bars until sunrise.
Enter Patricia Smith, a nationally acclaimed poet who grew up not far from these clubs. Smith, a four-time National Poetry Slam champion who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014, finds inspiration in Abramson s pictures. She creates words that capture the culture of Chicago s black nightclubs and the urban life that nurtured them. She brings his night world back to life.
Smith s words and Abramson s photographs record the vitality of a special place and time. Her words give his photographs a new rhythm as well as a new place in Chicago and music history.
The clubs seem timeless, but they came and went. Now, only Abramson s flash-filled photographs and Smith s resilient words remain.
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