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.Steve Hill
Solo Recordings Volume 3
J.C. SMITH BAND
DEFINING COOL
THE MIGHTY MOJO PROPHETS
THE MIGHTY MOJO PROPHETS
MARCIA BALL
TATTOOED LADY AND THE ALLIGATOR MAN
OMAR KENT DYKES WITH JIMMIE VAUGHAN
ON THE JIMMY REED HIGHWAY
POPA CHUBBY
ESSENTIAL
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