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.ALICE RUSSELL
Pot of Gold
DION
SON OF SKIP JAMES
LUBRIPHONIC
Soul Solution
Chase Walker Band
Not Quite Legal
THE MIGHTY MOJO PROPHETS
FLYIN' HOME FROM MEMPHIS
RUTHIE FOSTER
The Truth According to Ruthie Foster
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