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.SUSAN TEDESCHI
BACK TO THE RIVER
JOHNNY AND THE MoTONES
NOTHIN' TO LOSE
TIM "TOO SLIM" LANGFORD
Broken Halo
Lazy Genius
Strange Plains, Dark Grooves.
BB KING
– One Kind Favor
SAMUEL JAMES
THE RETURN OF SUGAR SMALLHOUSE
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