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.COMPILATIONS
God Don't Never Change - The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson
DIANNE DAVIDSON
PERIGON FULL CIRCLE
THE PHANTOM BLUES BAND
Footprints
BIG AL JANO
Some of My Best Friends Have the Blues
THE TWISTERS
After the Storm
ROOMFUL OF BLUES
HOOK, LINE & SINKER
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