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.
MAC ARNOLD
Mac Arnold's Blues Revival; Live at the Grey Eagle
REV. BILLY C. WIRTZ
FULL CIRCLE
Hard Swimmin' Fish
True Believer
Mel Brown
Under Yonder: Mel Brown Live At Pop The Gator 1991
Rick "LA" Holmstrom
Late in the Night
RICCI/KROWN
CITY-COUNTRY-CITY
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