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.
Shorty Kreutz
Full Custom Boogie
GRACE ASKEW
Until They Lay Me Down to Rest
CEDRIC BURNSIDE AND LIGHTNIN’ MALCOLM -
2 MAN WRECKING CREW
TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT
Wrong Side of the Blues
TAD ROBINSON
BACK IN STYLE
ERNIE HAWKINS
Whinin' Boy
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