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.NICK MOSS BAND FEATURING DENNIS GRUENLING
THE HIGH COST OF LOW LIVING
KENNY 'BLUES BOSS' WAYNE
Rollin' With The Blues Boss
Quinn Sullivan
Midnight Highway
DUKE ROBILLARD AND FRIENDS
BLUES BASH
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY
EASY LIVIN'
JO HARMAN
PEOPLE WE BECOME
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