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.ELLEN WHYTE
FOUR WAY STOP
PATRICK SWEANY
Every Hour Is a Dollar Gone
THE IGUANAS
If You Should Ever Fall On Hard Times
NAPPY BROWN
LONG TIME COMING
THE MYSTIX
BLUE MORNING
DAVID MAXWELL & LOUISIANA RED
YOU GOT TO MOVE
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