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.THE BMF BAND
Blurring The Line
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Things About Comin' My Way: A Tribute to the Music of the Mississippi Sheiks
MUDDY V AND THE HOUSE ROCKERS
Muddy V and The House Rockers
Dudley Taft
Summer Rain
JESSE DEE
ON MY MIND/ IN MY HEART
JIMMY THACKERY AND THE DRIVERS
Inside Tracks
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