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.VANCE GILBERT
BaD Dog Buffet
ELLEN WHYTE
FOUR WAY STOP
RORY BLOCK
SHAKE 'EM ON DOWN- A TRIBUTE TO MISSISSIPPI FRED MCDOWELL
Apocalypse Blues Revue
Apocalypse Blues Revue
THE MAINSTAYS
The Mainstays
Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt
Slide To Freedom
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