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.ROB STONE
GOTTA KEEP ROLLIN'
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY
EASY LIVIN'
BILLY BRANCH AND THE SONS OF BLUES
BLUES SHOCK
RUTHIE FOSTER
The Truth According to Ruthie Foster
Dudley Taft
Summer Rain
GINA SICILIA
IT WASN'T REAL
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