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.CATFISH KEITH
Put on a Buzz
TOBY WALKER
Shake Shake Mama
Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King
Fat Man's Shine Parlor
KENNY 'BLUES BOSS' WAYNE
Rollin' With The Blues Boss
Jimmy Carpenter
Toiling in Obscurity
JW-Jones
High Temperature
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