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I don’t know why, but I always default to reading the word ‘live’ as that word that is the opposite of ‘die’. So I expected the linked article to be about some sort of residency/guest program at a jail!

I guess it just shows how few live performances I attend.

I bet you read it like that because while "live" can be pronounced either way the grammatically correct version would be "life" for what I think would be a normal non context aware assumption. The "live" that sounds like "life" has completely different meaning, that coincidentally is correct here because of context but without context I would always assume grammatical in correctness. I've just seen too many people get it wrong. Like "your" and "you're".

Funnily enough you can read the "read" in my sentence above as both present or past tense. It both works but would be pronounced differently.

>Funnily enough you can read the "read" in my sentence above as both present or past tense. It both works but would be pronounced differently.

I hate the recent trend of writing "lead" to mean both "lead" as in "leader" and "led" as in, well, led.

Seems it was just a decade or two ago when the two were used distinctively, but some time in the late '10s it all just became "lead".

eg: "The army is led well by the general." vs. "The army is lead well by the general."

I’m not sure I’ve come across this use of lead to replace led. You have any examples?

With a headline/name like this and no further/prior context, I too thought this was something about living in the county jail specified.

idk why you got downvoted. But I do too. I think it’s because of the band Joan of Arc - they use “live” in that way in a couple of their records’ titles.

Not sure about op's intent here but this thread title could be glib at best if you know anything about Cook County

Not mentioned anywhere in the article, but I've always wondered if this was the inspiration for the final (and first) scenes in The Blues Brothers[1] (which takes places almost entirely in Cook County).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Ny6zn59x8

It may have been!

It’s not mentioned on this article, but it is mention ed on this other one I also read today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Blue_Can_You_Get

(Scroll down to BB King versions; I couldn’t figure out how to link to that headline while on the phone).

I should have watched the video you linked before answering, but I still think the fact that BB King performed as part of a fictional band for the movie means his (by then long) experience playing in jails could have inspired the scene you linked to.

It’s probably a good bet that the scene was inspired by the album/concert.

But just to be pedantic, all the prison scenes were from the Joliet State Prison, which is definitely not in Cook County. The Joliet prison has its own history - it was built in the 1850s by prison labor, who quarried limestone from the site, and was open up until the early 2000s! There are tours from time to time, and a supposedly very good haunted house around Halloween.

I stumbled upon this today following links after my wife sent me a video of BB King changing a string while performing “How blue can you get” and thought of sharing it because this is a great album, and I also really liked this quote from King regarding his experience during this concert:

"I don't think that when a guy does something wrong he shouldn't be punished, but if he does it as a human being, he should pay for it as a human being."

This is a great album, and as for how to choose between that and Live at the Regal: all you can say is "why not both?"

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