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.MONSTER MIKE WELCH AND MIKE LEDBETTER
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
TAKE THE HIGH ROAD
THE BOTTOMS UP BLUES GANG
HANDLE IT
COMPILATIONS
Blues For Big Walter
Laura Rain & The Ceasers
Closer
TOM PRINCIPATO
A PART OF ME
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