2009-05-11
This looks like a greatest hits compilation but it’s actually a retrospective performed by a modern Chicago collective calling themselves The Living History Band. They’re joined by 4 of Chicago’s great blues traditionalists – harp masters Billy Boy Arnold and Billy Branch; and guitarists Lurrie Bell and John Primer. Extensive liners explain the significance of the honored artists, none of whom, it could be pointed out, were born north of the Mason-Dixon.
JOHN NEMETH
Name the Day
ANDRE CYMONE
The Stone
SHARRIE WILLIAMS
Out of the Dark
DEVON ALLMAN'S HONEYTRIBE
SPACE AGE BLUES
Bob Margolin
My Road
RANDY McALLISTER AND THE SCRAPPIEST BAND IN THE MOTHERLAND
PAPERBAG SALVATION
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