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.DANA FUCHS
BLISS AVENUE
EDDIE "THE CHIEF" CLEARWATER
WEST SIDE STRUT
NICK MOSS BAND FEATURING DENNIS GRUENLING
THE HIGH COST OF LOW LIVING
DELBERT MCCLINTON
ACQUIRED TASTE
VICTOR WAINWRIGHT AND THE TRAIN
MEMPHIS LOUD
BILLY BRANCH AND THE SONS OF BLUES
BLUES SHOCK
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