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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Cheyanne M. Daniels

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton among mourners honoring legendary DJ Pervis Spann, ‘The Blues Man’

At a South Side church Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Jesse Jackson regaled a crowd of mourners with a story about listening to the radio. 

“I was driving in Chicago one morning … and I heard the Good Guys on the radio: Rodney Jones, Herb Kent, and Pervis Spann — the Blues Man,” Jackson said to a captive audience. As he spoke the last name, the audience applauded.

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