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.
Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt
Slide To Freedom
OMAR KENT DYKES WITH JIMMIE VAUGHAN
ON THE JIMMY REED HIGHWAY
Lazy Genius
Strange Plains, Dark Grooves.
Debra Farris
Gotcha Covered
JIMMY THACKERY AND THE DRIVERS
Inside Tracks
LISA CEE
My Turn
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