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 MIGHTY MOJO PROPHETS
FLYIN' HOME FROM MEMPHIS
NAPPY BROWN
LONG TIME COMING
SHAWN HOLT AND THE TEARDROPS
Daddy Told Me
MONSTER MIKE WELCH AND MIKE LEDBETTER
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME
OMAR KENT DYKES WITH JIMMIE VAUGHAN
ON THE JIMMY REED HIGHWAY
KENNY "BLUES BOSS" WAYNE
JUMPIN & BOPPIN'
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