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.THE BOTTOMS UP BLUES GANG
HANDLE IT
Fillmore Slim
The Legendary Fillmore Slim
JOHN NEMETH
Name the Day
Blind Lemon Pledge
Pledge Drive
BRAD VICKERS & HIS VESTAPOLITANS
Traveling Fool
The City Boy Allstars
Blinded By The Night
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