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.Jeff Jensen
The River City Sessions
DOWNCHILD BLUES BAND
LIVE AT THE PALAIS ROYALE
MONSTER MIKE WELCH AND MIKE LEDBETTER
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME
JOHN MAYALL
TALK ABOUT THAT
VANESSA COLLIER
HEART ON THE LINE
Tim Woods
The Blues Sessions
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