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.LAURIE MORVAN BAND
BREATHE DEEP
RORY BLOCK
BLUES WALKING LIKE A MAN- A TRIBUTE TO SON HOUSE
BIG JOE AND THE DYNAFLOWS
ROCKHOUSE PARTY
Bob Margolin
My Road
ROYAL SOUTHERN BROTHERHOOD
HEARTSOULBLOOD
POPA CHUBBY
ESSENTIAL
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